Title: Widen Text Space
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Widen Text Space

 *  [sandraholt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandraholt/)
 * (@sandraholt)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widen-text-space/)
 * I created an a child theme from the Inspiration theme and would like to widen
   the text space and make the borders (background) more narrow. I know I have to
   change this on my CSS style sheet but I’m not sure how to do it. Can someone 
   help?
 * Thanks!
 * My site is [http://www.tealdresser.com](http://www.tealdresser.com).

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 *  [bencaplan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bencaplan/)
 * (@bencaplan)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widen-text-space/#post-3929273)
 * Hi sandraholt,
 * Do you mind clarifying a bit? Do you mean that you want the width of your site
   to be wider (thus you see less background)? With that additional space you want
   the main article copy to be what gets wider?
 * Let me know and I would be happy to take another look.
 *  Thread Starter [sandraholt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandraholt/)
 * (@sandraholt)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widen-text-space/#post-3929419)
 * Yes, I’d like to see less background and I want the area that is white currently
   to be wider. I hope that makes sense!
 * Thanks for taking another look!
    Sandra
 *  [bencaplan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bencaplan/)
 * (@bencaplan)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widen-text-space/#post-3929464)
 * Hi sandraholt,
 * Your WordPress theme is built on the 960 grid, with the original intention of
   being responsive. That said, it seems that your site has a number fixed widths
   thrown in there, so I don’t think that adding some more will be an issue.
 * In your wrapper definition in style.css on line 26 does not define a width so
   the file 960.css is setting it. To make “less background” you will want to add
   the following code to your style.css file after the rule that starts on line 
   26 ends:
 *     ```
       .container_12, .container_16{
           width: 1000px;
       }
       ```
   
 * You will also need to add a background color to your banner under the rule `#
   sub-header` that starts on line. Something like `background-color: #00000;` where#
   000000 is the hex number for the color you want to use.
 * I assume that you will also want to make your content column larger, so you will
   also want to add `width: 660px` to style.css in the rule that starts on line 
   42. You want the change in width of this column to be equal to the change in `.
   container_12, .container_16`.
 * I hope that this helps.
 *  Thread Starter [sandraholt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandraholt/)
 * (@sandraholt)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widen-text-space/#post-3929502)
 * Thanks for trying to help but it didn’t work. When I added the code, the text
   did get wider but nothing else adjusted accordingly such that I had elements 
   overlapping each other and also my text was smaller and my background disappeared.
   If you have any other thoughts on how to make the text space wider, I’d appreciate
   it!
 * Sandra

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