Negative Margins, Hack or Not?

Question

I\'ve come across various posts where people are stating that negative margins are hacks. Thus I\'ve strayed away from using them with exception to particular cases when I can j

Answer 1

I suspect they've been labeled as a hack because of inconsistent browser behavior.

Whenever possible I use position: relative and negative top and left values to pull elements into new locations. This isn't possible for every case, but I find it behaves more consistently in all the Internet Explorer flavors.