Hi there mizas,
Is it possible to extend a border so it goes out a little farther than the element?
No, you will have to resort to trickery 
[color=navy]<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
#outer {
width:100px;
padding:0 5px;
border-top:1px solid #000;
margin:20px auto;
}
#inner {
height:100px;
background-color:#fcc;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>[/color]
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