Title: How to manually adjust theme width
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# How to manually adjust theme width

 *  Resolved [steve1111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steve1111/)
 * (@steve1111)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-manually-adjust-theme-width/)
 * Just a quick question.. how do I manually adjust the theme width?
    I have worked
   out its a file in Appearance->Editor, but I cannot work out which file(s) to 
   edit to adjust the page theme width? My site is [ Thanks in advance. steve

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 *  [Jarret](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarretc/)
 * (@jarretc)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-manually-adjust-theme-width/#post-2326568)
 * Once you are in the Editor window, on the right hand side of the screen click
   on style.css if it isn’t already loaded.
 * Once the code loads up you want to look for
 *     ```
       #page {
           margin: 2em auto;
           max-width: 1000px;
       }
       ```
   
 * and modify the max-width: 1000px; value to your liking.
 * As a pre-caution though since you are not using a child theme, if you make any
   customizations and later on update the TwentyEleven theme your customizations
   will be over written and you will lose them.
 *  Thread Starter [steve1111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steve1111/)
 * (@steve1111)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-manually-adjust-theme-width/#post-2326570)
 * Thanks JarretC.. much appreciated 🙂

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