Title: Column width
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Column width

 *  Resolved [DearestDebi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dearestdebi/)
 * (@dearestdebi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-6/)
 * Is there a way to make the right column a little bit wider and the post space
   smaller?

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-6/#post-3313164)
 * there might be, by editing the stylesheet of the theme – please post a link to
   your site to illustrate what you have so far.
 * you can use a browser inspection tool such as Firebug to get a better idea of
   how the theme’s columns are formatted.
 *  Thread Starter [DearestDebi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dearestdebi/)
 * (@dearestdebi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-6/#post-3313170)
 * Right now my site is visible at [http://www.debidearest.com](http://www.debidearest.com)(
   It should be dearestdebi.com just waiting for my dns changes to take effect.)
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
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 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-6/#post-3313171)
 * How familiar are you with CSS?
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-6/#post-3313172)
 * in style.css (around line 75) these two styles are defining the widths of the
   sidebar and content area:
 *     ```
       #content {width: 600px; float: left; padding:0 20px 0 0;}
       #sidebar {width: 299px; float: right;}
       ```
   
 * unchecked – there might be more styles with width definitions (?)
 * you will also need to edit this background image which does the vertical separator
   line:
    /wp-content/themes/delicacy/images/content-bg.png
 *  Thread Starter [DearestDebi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dearestdebi/)
 * (@dearestdebi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-6/#post-3313173)
 * I’m not too familiar with CSS, I’m reading a tutorial right now. I have courses
   in html and java script so just updating now on CSS.
 * Thank you for the info Alchymyth, once I’m done reading my tutorial I am going
   to see if I can make some changes, after a back up of course 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [DearestDebi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dearestdebi/)
 * (@dearestdebi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-6/#post-3313176)
 * thank you, thank you! I was able to fix it the way I want. 🙂
 * Well maybe not.. I got the size changed and edited the image but yet the content
   space is still the same.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-6/#post-3313177)
 * > yet the content space is still the same.
 * looks ok to me;
    can you post a screenshot of the problem, or a link to a specific
   post/page where the problem is obvious?
 * have you cleared the browser cache?
    ‘ctrl f5’ or ‘reload’ or whatever…
 *  Thread Starter [DearestDebi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dearestdebi/)
 * (@dearestdebi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-6/#post-3313179)
 * the one ad I have keeps getting cut off on the right side.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-6/#post-3313180)
 * either make the sidebar even wider;
 * or add this to style.css:
 *     ```
       .wpInsertAdWidget{margin-left:-16px!important;}
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [DearestDebi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dearestdebi/)
 * (@dearestdebi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-6/#post-3313181)
 * Thank you. Will try it out a little later today.

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