Title: resize post/comment width??
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# resize post/comment width??

 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-postcomment-width/)
 * If you go to [http://www.marginalspace.com](http://www.marginalspace.com) and
   see where the left column meets the right column (white mets blue), you’ll notice
   the white area overlaps into the blue area due to the width of the posting area.
   Also, if you click on Comments, it further extends into the blue area and pushes
   my menu on the right down. Is there a setting to decrease the width of the posting
   area, or am i just going to have to increase the width on the banner, the container,
   etc.
    [http://marginalspace.com](http://marginalspace.com) Thanks!

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-postcomment-width/#post-104056)
 * If you take a look at your wp-layout.css file (in the css directory) , for the`#
   maincontent` element you have two different width settings (the reason for two
   is, the second is an old attempt to solve issues when viewed in Internet Explorer).
   
   Anyway, I suspect they should both be at 582px.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-postcomment-width/#post-104057)
 * Ok, it wasn’t the box model hack on the width, it was actually the padding that
   was the culprit. I had to knock it down from 10px to 5px. But, that sucks. It’s
   not life or death, but I would have preferred having my 10px of padding. Does
   this mean that the post/comment area fills to the width of your div automatically
   and that there is no way of controlling the width manually????
    Thanks for steering
   me in the right direction Kafkaesqui!
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-postcomment-width/#post-104106)
 * Hey, thanks man. I’m still learning CSS so I appreciate you guys putting up with
   some of these silly questions. Thanks a bunch!

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