Width of Site

[fourone]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me where I can alter the width of my site? I have my site in a wrapper div that in my stylesheet I have centered and given a width to, however when I preview my site it is narrower in width (which messes with the layout) and aligned to the left of the screen?

I can't think what is overwriting my styles?

Many thanks in advance.

[TraceyHand]

a url would be helpful

[fourone]

Hi Tracy,

Thanks for getting back to me. I don't have anything online at the moment as I am only testing things locally to get the design of the site right. I'm sure it is just some conflicting styles but I can't seem to see anything obvious?

[leehack]

Wait til you get it live and use firebug and firefox then, much easier to debug and much easier for us rather than doing it blind.

[fourone]

Will do leehack, I'll let you know when it's up.

[Nick H]

Apologies for jumping into your thread Fourone, but I'm trying to do exactly the same thing - widen the site in order to accommodate an 'order history' display from Codepath.
Here's the url http://www.swstrade.co.uk/acatalog/t...r_History.html
The Codepath display is 705 px wide, so my site is going to have to 883 px overall to accommodate it.
I'm told that the width of the absolute outside white 'fram'e' is the bit I have to adjust, but I can't work out where that is!
Any suggestions?

[leehack]

Firefox and Firebug is what we all use to find out what is what, i'd suggest you do too, it's a Godsend. Click on 'inspect' and then hover to see the styles and containers in question.

[jont]

Nick,

in the stylesheet look for

#maincontent {
blah blah blah
width: 762px;
}

leave the other gumph and change the width: 762px accordingly.

[jont]

I would consider the reasoning on changing the whole site just for the codepath stuff, especially if you are happy with it. Don't forget you can assign a different layout to specific pages (or use some CSS to change the width just on that page) to the rest remain the same.