This block of code is found at line 224b of the default template’s style.css file:
#page {
background-color: white;
margin: 20px auto;
padding: 0;
width: 760px;
border: 1px solid #959596;
}
You could change the width: 760px; to whatever width you desire, but this will not produce the results that you are after. The other elements (inside page) like: #header, #footer, .widecolumn, .narrowcolumn and #sidebar have their own styles applied. The most important styles (the ones that you will most likely have issues with) are background images, widths + margin & padding combinations.
Although I know that it should be easier the teak the width, the fact that the default theme uses fixed-width background images to achieve it’s design makes this more trouble than it might be worth.
Have you ever thought of choosing a different theme?
K2, Theme Viewer, Brian Gardner Themes
Hi, I need help on a similar problem. I am using Vbulletin and the theme dimensions are different from that of wordpress (which has 2 side columns).
Is there anyway I can remove these 2 constraints so as to come up with a theme similar to that of my vbulletin interface?
Thread Starter
B Man
(@boyd3dart)
mfields – thank you for clarifying! I didn’t realize the default theme used images for the backgrounds. I just want colors. I’ll mess around, but you’re right – it may be easier to find a theme.
And thank you for pointing me to the spot in the code! I couldn’t find it.
