<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'> <head> <title>Opposing Offset Properties</title> <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> div { background: yellow; border: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); position: absolute; width: 600px; height: 600px; } p#offset-x { margin: 0; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid black; position: absolute; bottom: 5px; left: 5px; right: 123px; background: gold; } </style> </head> <body> <div> <p id='offset-x'> When the left and right offset properties are applied to the same element, width is implied. </p> </div> </body> </html>