title: absolute position affects width?
body: <p>I am new to css.  I am wondering why when I change the positioning of the div element to absolute, the width of the div element changes? Tried it out in Chrome v25.0.1364.172m and IE9, both have the same outcome.  </p>
  
  <p>Simple example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!doctype html/&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;test&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;style&gt;
          div {
              position:relative;
              border-width: 1px;
              border-style: solid;
              border-color: black;
          }
      &lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;div&gt;test&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>