Title: Increasing width
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Increasing width

 *  [DDB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddb/)
 * (@ddb)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increasing-width/)
 * Hello,
 * I was playing around to make my text wider and successfully changed it. The problem
   is the background area is stuck at the same width. I’ve looked all over the code
   under “width” and can’t find the area to change so the proportions are similar.
   Any advice?
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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increasing-width/#post-4014160)
 * Where are you making your changes?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increasing-width/#post-4014163)
 * Try getting rid of that background image and use CSS instead;
 *     ```
       .article-corps {
        -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 10px #aaa;
        -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 10px #aaa;
        box-shadow: 0 0 10px #aaa;
        background: white;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [DDB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddb/)
 * (@ddb)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increasing-width/#post-4014168)
 * There used to be a sidebar there but I wanted my text to be wider so the page
   wasn’t so long.
 * I didn’t consider it being an image. Can you find the part where it is so I can
   increase the width?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increasing-width/#post-4014173)
 * You can’t increase the width of it, it’s an image: [http://www.drivewaydealsbookstore.com/wp-content/themes/redbel/images/article_sprite.png](http://www.drivewaydealsbookstore.com/wp-content/themes/redbel/images/article_sprite.png)
 * What you are seeing is the right-half of the image – [http://awesomescreenshot.com/03a1lcrddf](http://awesomescreenshot.com/03a1lcrddf)–
   Try using an image manipulation tool to increase the width.
 *  Thread Starter [DDB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddb/)
 * (@ddb)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increasing-width/#post-4014183)
 * I’m thinking the solution is to download it, crop & resize it, and upload it.
   Why does the .png picture look so different from the one on my site? I don’t 
   understand how WordPress is able to take that image and convert it so cleanly.

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 * [text-area](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/text-area/)
 * [width](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/width/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increasing-width/#post-4014183)
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