[Tex/LaTex] Shift horizontal line to the left

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I am using a horizontal rule to to separate texts, and I would like the rule to start to the left of the current left margin. I am using the following code, but apparently it is not the correct way to do that, as I get the warning: "Overfull \hbox (2.22221pt too wide) in paragraph"
What is the correct way?

thanks.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
 \newcommand{\blockline}{\noindent\hspace{-0.05\textwidth}
    \textcolor{orange}{\rule{1.05\textwidth}{5pt}}}
\begin{document}
    \noindent\blindtext

    \blockline

    \noindent\blindtext
\end{document}

Best Answer

There's a spurious blank space at the end of the first line (which you should comment out). Also, I would use \par at the beginning of the definition so \blockline always ends a paragraph; to prevent the line to be left as a widow, I would use something like\par\nobreak at the end of the definition:

\newcommand{\blockline}{\par\noindent\hspace{-0.05\textwidth}%
    \textcolor{orange}{\rule{1.05\textwidth}{5pt}}\par\nobreak}
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