Making a div that sits outside the content area but doesn't cause the horizontal scroll bar to appear when browser window is shrunk

Question

Let\'s say you have a website where the body\'s background color is red and a content area with a white background that is 1,000 pixels wide. Now let\'s say you want a drop

Answer 1

Can the content area be 904px wide (1000-47-47) ? :P Afraid I'm going to need some code to help describe what you're talking about...