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

Question

I\'ve got a positioning problem with some elements, upon inspecting it IE8 Developer tools it shows me this:

Answer 1

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.