relative positioning
<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Relative Positioning</title> <style rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> p { padding: 5px; width: 200px; background-color: red; } p.two { position: relative; left: 40px; top: -40px; background: pink; } </style> </head> <body> <p><b>one</b>. top of the page.</p> <p class="two"><b>two</b>. middle of the page.</p> <p><b>three</b>. bottom of the page.</p> </body> </html>