Title: Article Container Styling
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Article Container Styling

 *  Resolved [katrinakvr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katrinakvr/)
 * (@katrinakvr)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/article-container-styling/)
 * Hi Christopher,
 * I think that this one will be easy. The space between the articles and sidebar
   seems a little wide and I’d like to increase the width of the article container.
 * I “assume” (I know :)) that the width is set in the css, but I haven’t been able
   to find it.
 * I’m more familiar with CSS than PHP, so I’m not totally helpless.
 * Thanks as always.
    Katrina

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/article-container-styling/#post-3566837)
 * Do you have section in the dashboard named, “Custom CSS”, “Custom Styles”, or“
   Jetpack”, or are you using a Child Theme?
 *  Thread Starter [katrinakvr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katrinakvr/)
 * (@katrinakvr)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/article-container-styling/#post-3566839)
 * Hi Andrew,
 * I’ve created a child theme using Christopher’s Blocomo theme as the start. The
   parent theme is Twenty Twelve.
 * My styles.css is from Blocomo and I haven’t modified it yet. The only thing that
   I’ve really modified so far is content.php.
 * My Dashboard doesn’t have Custom Styles, Custom CSS or Jetpack.
 * I usually use Notepad or Dreamweaver to edit code.
 * Cheers,
    Kaatrina
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/article-container-styling/#post-3566840)
 * > The space between the articles and sidebar seems a little wide
 * In your Child Theme style.css file, add this;
 *     ```
       .widget-area .widget {
        margin-bottom: 1.4rem;
       }
       ```
   
 * Mess about with the **1.4** value to get what you want.
 * >  I’d like to increase the width of the article container
 * Add;
 *     ```
       .site-content {
        width: 70%;
       }
       ```
   
 * Mess about with the **70** value to get what you want.
 *  Thread Starter [katrinakvr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katrinakvr/)
 * (@katrinakvr)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/article-container-styling/#post-3566970)
 * Thanks very much Andrew,
 * Did exactly what I needed. I had tried changing the margins in .site-content 
   article which did not work.
 * So thanks again!
 * Katrina

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