Title: Resize sidebar
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Resize sidebar

 *  Resolved [Lysannetje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lysannetje/)
 * (@lysannetje)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-sidebar-1/)
 * Hello,
 * I was wondering if I could resize the sidebar into 300 px (width).
 * Thank you.

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 *  [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/)
 * (@rossmitchell)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-sidebar-1/#post-5460167)
 * Either use a plugin to customise css, or change to using a child theme:
    using
   a [child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * Suggest that you install a browser inspector like firebug, it shows you how your
   html is formed and how your css is working.
 * The browser inspector will show you how the sidebars are being managed, and how
   your theme is setting the width.
 *  Theme Author [iografica](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iografica/)
 * (@iografica)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-sidebar-1/#post-5460399)
 * Thanks RossMitchell,
    Lysannetje have you solved the problem?
 *  Thread Starter [Lysannetje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lysannetje/)
 * (@lysannetje)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-sidebar-1/#post-5460400)
 * Hi,
 * I found this code in CSS:
 * #wpbody-content {
    float: left; overflow: visible !important; padding-bottom:
   65px; width: 100%; } .inner-sidebar { clear: right; display: none; float: right;
   position: relative; width: 281px; } .columns-2 .inner-sidebar { display: block;
   margin-right: auto; width: 286px; } .columns-2 .inner-sidebar #side-sortables,.
   inner-sidebar #side-sortables { min-height: 300px; padding: 0; width: 280px; }.
   has-right-sidebar .inner-sidebar { display: block; } .has-right-sidebar #post-
   body { clear: left; float: left; margin-right: -2000px; width: 100%; } .has-right-
   sidebar #post-body-content { float: none; margin-right: 300px; width: auto;
 * I changed the inner-sidebar width to 300 px and columns2 to 300 px in Jetpack
   CSS customizer, but nothing happened. Well this theme is not my current theme,
   but I want to change some little things.
 * Thanks for the help btw.
 *  Theme Author [iografica](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iografica/)
 * (@iografica)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-sidebar-1/#post-5460409)
 * Hi, the class of the main content is “content-area” and the class of sidebar 
   is “widget-area” you must add custom width to this two classes. To work try to
   add the attribute “!important” to the custom css.
 *  Thread Starter [Lysannetje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lysannetje/)
 * (@lysannetje)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-sidebar-1/#post-5460420)
 * Thank you so much! It really works.
    I am very happy right now 🙂
 *  Theme Author [iografica](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iografica/)
 * (@iografica)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-sidebar-1/#post-5460425)
 * happy to hear this 🙂
 *  [leggers2015](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leggers2015/)
 * (@leggers2015)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-sidebar-1/#post-5460461)
 * Hello, I’m fairly new to WordPress and was hoping someone could help me resize
   my sidebar. Right now it’s a bit too narrow and is cutting off my ads. My URL
   is: [http://fitterplanet.co](http://fitterplanet.co).
 * Thanks in advance for any help!

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resize-sidebar-1/#post-5460461)
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