To clarify, I was using width as a lateral term (row width) but it looks like WP uses width as a generic for column width? Pretty lost here.
all CSS is theme specific – therefore it would be useful if you could post the name (and download link) of your currently used theme.
even better, if you could post a link to your site to illustrate the situation, and to allow investigation of the formtting with any of the browser inspection tools.
‘width’ is generally just applied to whatever selector is specified for it in the CSS.
The theme is Chosen. The address is 199.5.62.9/~meyersmanx/
Is that all you need?