Title: Weird Formatting: Width Cut Off?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Weird Formatting: Width Cut Off?

 *  [baseballpie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baseballpie/)
 * (@baseballpie)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-formatting-width-cut-off/)
 * I don’t really know how best to decribe it, so I’ll include the link, but basically
   my Contact Form seems to cut itself off about halfway across the page. The text
   fields are too small, and there’s a giant gap between the check box and the text
   for that checkbox, and the text wraps back down in a really ugly way.
 * Help?
 * [http://votety.com/get-involved/](http://votety.com/get-involved/)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/)

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 *  [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/)
 * (@buzztone)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-formatting-width-cut-off/#post-3781007)
 * This is due to styling of your current theme in [http://votety.com/wp-content/themes/give/style.css](http://votety.com/wp-content/themes/give/style.css)
 * To change the style of your CF7 forms you would need to edit the CSS style sheets
   used by your WordPress theme.
 * See [Styling Contact Form](http://contactform7.com/styling-contact-form/) for
   a general explanation of styling CF7 forms using CSS. If you are not familiar
   with CSS, this page also includes some links to where you can learn CSS.
 * The most common and preferred method is to create a Child Theme and make any 
   necessary additions to the CSS in the child themes style.css only, rather than
   directly in the themes styles.css. That way you don’t loose your changes when
   you update the theme.
 * It’s also a good idea to use [Firebug](https://getfirebug.com/) or [Chrome Dev Tools](https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/)
   to find and target individual css classes & ids within your CF7 forms so that
   your css changes don’t inadvertantly effect other elements on your website.
 * If you are uncomfortable editing CSS style sheets you may prefer to use a custom
   CSS plugin like [My Custom CSS](http://wordpress.org/plugins/my-custom-css/).
 *  Thread Starter [baseballpie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baseballpie/)
 * (@baseballpie)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-formatting-width-cut-off/#post-3781139)
 * Thanks for the info; I figured it’d be a CSS problem. Unfortunately I don’t know
   CSS so I’ll have to learn. But what would I need to change?
 *  [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/)
 * (@buzztone)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-formatting-width-cut-off/#post-3781166)
 * > Unfortunately I don’t know CSS so I’ll have to learn
 * Yes – well worth doing.

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## Tags

 * [contact-form](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/contact-form/)
 * [format](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/format/)
 * [formatting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/formatting/)
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 * [Indent](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/indent/)
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 * [width](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/width/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-formatting-width-cut-off/#post-3781166)
 * Status: not resolved