Title: [Theme: Delicate] Full width footer
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Theme: Delicate] Full width footer

 *  [loughrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loughrey/)
 * (@loughrey)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-delicate-full-width-footer/)
 * Hi there, I am looking for some advise on a website I am working on
    [http://www.thirdadolescence.com/](http://www.thirdadolescence.com/)
   I have tried to get a full width footer and I am almost there, also there is 
   white space at the left hand side and I can not figure it out
 * any help would be greatly apprecciated
 * [http://www.thirdadolescence.com/](http://www.thirdadolescence.com/)
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   dan2011** password **3rdadolescence2011** ( need to enter details twice)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/delicate/](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/delicate/)

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 *  [Maikel van de Weerd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maikel-van-de-weerd/)
 * (@maikel-van-de-weerd)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-delicate-full-width-footer/#post-2363635)
 * Your footer width is 1000pixels
 * change footer `width: 1000px;` to `width:auto;`
 *  [peredur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peredur/)
 * (@peredur)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-delicate-full-width-footer/#post-2363645)
 * The easiest way to make the footer full width would be to make it a direct child
   of the #wrap div. Then it would be automatically full width without any positioning
   or anything.
 * As it stands, it’s a child of .columns, which has a width of 1000px. The div.
   columns area is a descendent of .content-pad which, strangely, has a width of
   960px. So the footer will (unless you mess with it) take the width of one of 
   those two.
 * To make your changes you’ll have to mess with your template files. Which ones
   exactly will depend on your theme: but basically you are going to have to change
   anything that calls `get_footer()`, I would think.
 * As usual, I would echo the WP Codex recommendation to [use a child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   when making any changes to themes.
 * Cheers
 * PAE
 *  Thread Starter [loughrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loughrey/)
 * (@loughrey)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-delicate-full-width-footer/#post-2363701)
 * thank you both for your comments. the style sheet “thirdadolescence” is a child
   of the delicate theme. I have changed the widths of the key elements to 100% 
   or auto. PAE, you mentioned I would have to mess with any page that calls get_footer()
   would you advise against this?
 * thanks
 *  [peredur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peredur/)
 * (@peredur)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-delicate-full-width-footer/#post-2363723)
 * If changing the width has fixed it for you then you don’t have to do anything
   else.
 * If you do need (or want) to move the element to be a child of the #wrap element
   then you’ll need to copy the templates that contain `get_footer()` from the delicate
   theme into your child theme. You can then alter them without worries except for
   getting it right, of course.
 * 🙂
 * I’m assuming that the child theme is one you’ve created…
 * Cheers
 * PAE
 *  Thread Starter [loughrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loughrey/)
 * (@loughrey)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-delicate-full-width-footer/#post-2363978)
 * A belated thank you PAE.
 *  [peredur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peredur/)
 * (@peredur)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-delicate-full-width-footer/#post-2363979)
 * De nada
 * PAE

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