title: Can you reset a CSS element to refer to absolute zero within a relative element
body: <p>This is a rather random problem.  I'm using CSS3Pie to handle CSS3 compatibility in IE, but I've run into a snag.  With PIE in a lot of cases you need to use position:relative for it to work properly in IE.  </p>
  
  <p>This becomes an issue when I use it on containing wrappers, as it then moves in the zero reference inside of the layout.  The software we use for mapping on our sites uses an absolute position of the top left corner of the browser as its point of reference for calculating positioning.  Ideally our software would be more flexible and not reliant on an absolute position like that, but that's probably not going to change anytime soon.</p>
  
  <p>So getting to my question, is it possible to somehow take an element out of the flow of the layout and refer back to the original 0,0 top left position while being contained within a relatively positioned object?  I thought maybe z-index might work, but it doesn't make the element refer back to absolute 0,0.</p>
  
  <p>The most simple workaround is to not apply PIE to my wrappers, but then that also removes rounded corners and dropshadows from my layout wrapper.  That isn't the end of the world, but ideally I'd like to come up with a solution.</p>