Title: Decrease Sidebar size
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Decrease Sidebar size

 *  [sunny_mhl10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunny_mhl10/)
 * (@sunny_mhl10)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-sidebar-size/)
 * Hi
 *  I want to increase the size of Content & reduce the size of sidebar in ZeeBusiness
   Theme
 * Thanks

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-sidebar-size/#post-3306720)
 * This kind of modification can be done in the CSS code – but before you make any
   changes, you’ll need to set up a child theme or use a custom CSS option or plug-
   in.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * Once you have that set up, post a link to your site and someone can likely help
   you with the specific code to add to your CSS.
 *  Thread Starter [sunny_mhl10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunny_mhl10/)
 * (@sunny_mhl10)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-sidebar-size/#post-3306723)
 * Hi WPyogi
 *  I am just new to WordPress so i have not hosted on Server . I have created Child
   Theme . Can u tell where i should make changes.
 * I am working on local machine
 * Thanks
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-sidebar-size/#post-3306731)
 * Unfortunately, it’s very hard to help with CSS work without seeing the site. 
   But I’d suggest you download and use [Firebug](http://getfirebug.com) to help
   you look at the CSS code that is determining the layout of the page. Once you
   see the code that is setting the width of the content, copy that code to your
   child theme style.css file and make the changes there. Same with the sidebar.
   You’ll have to make sure that the changes in width still “fit” in the containing
   element — if you don’t know any CSS, be aware that messing with layout can be
   a bit tricky sometimes as you may affect other pages in your site or have unintended
   changes.
 * This is a good reference site for CSS:
 * [http://www.w3schools.com/css/](http://www.w3schools.com/css/)
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-sidebar-size/#post-3306733)
 * I found a demo of the theme, so this is the code that you will need to change—
   though as I said before, it’s not always simple to change layout CSS:
 *     ```
       #sidebar {
           margin-left: 570px;
           margin-top: 10px;
           padding: 20px;
           width: 280px;
       }
       ```
   
 * and
 *     ```
       #content {
           float: left;
           padding: 10px 15px;
           width: 550px;
       }
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
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