title: Internet Explorer box model - what is offset?
body: <p>I am trying to adapt a site to support IE 7. I have a few elements, however, which are being offset to the right by 69px. I am testing in IE9, set to render the page as if it were IE7. When I turn on developer mode and inspect the element I notice that surrounding the "margin" there is a parameter called "offset".</p>
  
  <p>I've never heard of this before and Googling has not helped me out much - I only managed to find something about float-offset, which was not the same, but I assume it was there to eliminate some of the issues of quirks mode? How can I eliminate this offset-parameter? </p>
  
  <p>Obviously I have a IE-7 specific stylesheet set up and you can test the problem yourself by going to my testing environment on this link:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://suitable.amok-adhoc.com/2012/" rel="noreferrer">http://suitable.amok-adhoc.com/2012/</a></p>
  
  <p>Solved:</p>
  
  <p>Found a solution - it was pretty simple. Just had to explicitly declare the position  like this (although it was inherited from the parent element in all other browsers IE added a margin and called it "offset", which is overridden by doing this):</p>
  
  <pre><code>p {
      left:0px;
  }
  </code></pre>