I've only just started dabbling in css, so this might just be a dumb question. Anyway's, I've been attempting to make a custom profile for one of my pets, and I've found that I can't put anything other than background for the area that was originally taken up by the dashboard on the left of the page. Does everybody have to put up with that, or am I just missing something?

for some elements you have to use negative numbers (like -124px) to move them further left. It's annoying and a little confusing, but it's how subeta's code works.

I usually use negative numbers in the content, then you can use normal values for the rest of the code. like this: {background: transparent; left: -170px; width: 1280px; height: 960px; overflow: hidden;}

Thank you very much! It's rather embarrassing to say that I though of doing that, but then decided against it. >_<

I'm starting at coding too, and impressively there are things that are a little instinctive hahahha. Take a chance, the worst that could happen is if your page get all messed up, but you can delete what you did (:

( Psttt. If you set to position:absolute and put left:0px; top:0px; that might make more sense to you guys

since you just wrote in left and top without a position: declaration/overwrite, it's still at relative, which works differently than absolute.

g'day :D )