How do I get rid of an element s offset using CSS

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I ve got a positioning problem with some elements  upon inspecting it IE8 Developer tools it shows me this     Now I m pretty sure my problem is that 12 offset  but how do I remove it   I can t find any mention of a CSS offset property   Do we need an Offset in addition to margin   Here is the code thats producing this     lt div id  wahoo  style  border  solid 1px black  height 100px   gt        lt asp TextBox ID  inputBox  runat  server    gt        lt input id  btnDropDown  type  button  style  width 26px  height 26px  background-position  center center  border-left-color  buttonface  background-image  url Images WebResource gif   border-bottom-color  buttonface  border-top-color  buttonface  background-repeat  no-repeat  border-right-color  buttonface    tabindex  99    gt        lt div id  ListboxWrapper  style  display none  position absolute  onfocusout  this style display    none    gt          lt asp ListBox ID  lstBoxCompany  runat  server  AutoPostBack  True  OnSelectedIndexChanged  lstBoxCompany SelectedIndexChanged  style  z-index  100   Width  300px    gt                      lt  div gt    lt  div gt    The element with the offset is inputBox

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If you re using the IE developer tools  make sure you haven t accidentally left them at an older setting  I was making myself crazy with this same issue until I saw that it was set to Internet Explorer 7 Standards  Changed it to Internet Explorer 9 Standards and everything snapped right into place

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For me  it was vertical-align  baseline vs vertical-align  top that was causing the top offset   Try to set vertical-align  top

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Just set the outline to none like this      Identifier          outline none

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That offset is basically the x y position that the browser has calculated for the element based on it s position css attribute  So if you put a  lt br gt  before it or any other element  it would change the offset  For example  you could set it to 0 by    inputBox position absolute top 0px left 0px     or   inputBox position relative top -12px left -2px     Therefore  whatever positioning issue you have  is not necessarily an issue with offset  though you could always fix it by playing with the top left right and bottom attributes    Is your problem browser incompatibility

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I had the same problem  The offset appeared after UpdatePanel refresh  The solution was to add an empty  tag before the UpdatePanel like this    lt div gt  lt  div gt

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You can apply a reset css to get rid of those  defaults   Here is an example of a reset css http   meyerweb com eric tools css reset    Just apply the reset styles BEFORE your own styles

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I had the same issue on our  NET based website  running on DotNetNuke  DNN  and what solved it for me was basically a simple margin reset of the form tag   NET based websites are often wrapped in a form and without resetting the margin you can see the strange offset appearing sometimes  mostly when there are some scripts included    So if you are trying to fix this issue on your site  try enter this into your CSS file   form     margin  0

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define margin and padding for the element is facing the problem      element id  margin  0  padding  0      and see if problem exists  IE renders the page with to more unwanted inheritance  you should stop it from doing so

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This seems weird  but you can try setting vertical-align  top in the CSS for the inputs  That fixes it in IE8  at least

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Setting the top and left properties to negative values might not be a good workaround if your problem is simply that you re in quirks mode  This can happen if the page is missing a  lt  DOCTYPE gt  declaration  causing it to be rendered in quirks mode in IE8  In IE8 Developer Tools  make sure that  Quirks Mode  is not selected under  Document Mode   If it is selected  you may need to add the appropriate  lt  DOCTYPE gt  declaration

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Quick fix   position  relative  top  -12px  left  -2px    this should balance out those offsets  but maybe you should take a look at your whole layout and see how that box interacts with other boxes   As for terminology  left  right  top and bottom are CSS offset properties  They are used for positioning elements at a specific location  when used with absolute or fixed positioning   or to move them relative to their default location  when used with relative positioning   Margins on the other hand specify gaps between boxes and they sometimes collapse  so they can t be reliably used as offsets   But note that in your case that offset may not be computed  solely  from CSS offsets

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In my case the offset was added to a custom element with grid layout within an li while the ul was a vertical flexbox     The pretty simple solution was to set the define the li as block element with  li    display  block      And the offset was gone

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moving element top  -12px or positioning it absolutely doesn t solve the problem but only masks it  I had the same problem - check if you have in one wrapping element mixed  floating elements with non-floating ones - my non-floating element caused this strange offset to the floating one

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