Sized Block Outside to the Left of its parent
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title></title> <style type="text/css" title="text/css"> * .parent { left: 300px; top: 300px; position: relative; height: 140px; width: 200px; background: black; } * .negativeMargin { width: 220px; margin-left: -234px; background: red; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="parent">Parent <p class="negativeMargin">Sized Block Outside Left</p> </div> </body> </html>