Title: Content-area width not changing (using Elucidate theme)
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Content-area width not changing (using Elucidate theme)

 *  [sylgonet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sylgonet/)
 * (@sylgonet)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-area-width-not-changing-using-elucidate-theme/)
 * Hello,
    my site is [http://www.sylgo.net](http://www.sylgo.net) I’ve been trying
   to make the content-area (highlighted in black) about 500px so that the navigation
   won’t stick out the side and there will be no white margin on the right. I set
   the site-main (highlighted in purple) to 500px also, and see how that one adheres
   to the size I want it to while the content-area does not, even though I set them
   to the same size. here’s the code I’m using (altho the widget-area is sort of
   irrelevant here):
 *     ```
       .content-area {
       	width: 500px;
       	margin: 0;
       	padding: 0;
       	background-color: #000;
       }
   
       .site-content .widget-area {
       	overflow: hidden;
       	width: 200px;
       }
   
       .site-main {
       	margin: 0;
       	width: 500px;
       background-color: #D358F7;
       }
       ```
   
 * any ideas?
    thank you!

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-area-width-not-changing-using-elucidate-theme/#post-5113154)
 * the `.content-area` style is overwritten by a style for `#primary`;
 * from checking your site with the Firefox’ web developer add-on:
 *     ```
       /* Line 1232 */
       #primary
       {
         float: left;
         width: 73.8723%;
       }
       ```
   
 * in your styles, use:
    `#primary.content-area { ..... }`
 * btw:
    don’t edit the theme directly, but rather use a custom CSS plugin or child
   theme.

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## Tags

 * [content area](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/content-area/)
 * [Sizing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sizing/)
 * [theme problems](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/theme-problems/)
 * [width](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/width/)

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 * Last reply from: [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-area-width-not-changing-using-elucidate-theme/#post-5113154)
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