Title: Sidebar width?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Sidebar width?

 *  Resolved [frankdan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danfrankdancom/)
 * (@danfrankdancom)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-23/)
 * I love your theme!
 * But…
 * The sidebar intrudes over the main content when I’m on a desktop.
 * [http://maryshaffer.com/wpmary/](http://maryshaffer.com/wpmary/)
 * How can I reduce the width of the sidebar?

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 *  [Scott Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsmith/)
 * (@scottsmith)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-23/#post-4475837)
 *     ```
       .sidebar {
          width: 10%;
       }
       ```
   
 *  [Maximiljen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximiljen/)
 * (@maximiljen)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-23/#post-4476119)
 * Hello there!
 * I’ve installed the Decode theme and I’d really like to optimize it a bit for 
   my site, biggest thing so far is the sidebar overlapping the main content on 
   desktop.
 * I tried to identify the code lines above in the editor, but I couldn’t manage,
   so, if someone would help me I’d be most grateful.
 * It wouldn’t be such a big issue, but the site is meant to host short stories,
   and I need the content to be fully readable at all times..
 * Thanks in advance!
 *  [Scott Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsmith/)
 * (@scottsmith)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-23/#post-4476120)
 * At this point, it’s not easily possible to do this. I’m working on a plugin for
   the theme that would add this functionality.
 *  [Maximiljen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximiljen/)
 * (@maximiljen)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-23/#post-4476121)
 * Hey, Scott, thanks for your answer!
    Looking forward for the plugin! Until I 
   can use that, I managed to reduce te width of the sidebar using the [Simple Custom CSS](http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/)
   plugin and adding in it the code you wrote above.
 * Thanks a million times!

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-23/#post-4476121)
 * Status: resolved