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Originally Posted by adam c

I think I understand why you're saying there's no reason for both of these divs but what I'm trying to do is have a white bar the entire length of the browser and an image aligned off the left hand side of the centered box below. Can I still do this with only one div?

Create a 1x150px white image and set it as the body background, repeated horizontally but not vertically, keeping the grey (or whatever colour you end up using) as the background-color.