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Use margin to offset child


 


<!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>margin</title>
        <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
body {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}
div {
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
}
div#parent {
    margin: 10px 20px;
    background: yellow;
}
div#child {
    margin: 20px;
    background: lightyellow;
    border: 1px solid gold;
}        
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id='parent'>
            <div id='child'>
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>