Title: please help: header – change width Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # please help: header – change width * [pro_shine81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pro_shine81/) * (@pro_shine81) * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-header-change-width/) * Hello everybody! * My website is: [http://www.yochitosway.de](http://www.yochitosway.de) * I am currently modifying a theme and would like to span the header background image over the whole site – but I have no idea how to do this. * The header image is called header_bg.gif and is loaded through a css file: * > #header { > width: 100%; height: 118px; background: transparent url(images/ > header_bg.gif) repeat-x left top; } * Now it says 100%, but still the image is not shown over the whole page. * How can I change this? Thanks for your help, with best regards! Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [jabecker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabecker/) * (@jabecker) * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-header-change-width/#post-548417) * chances are good that the header div is inside a container div that controls the width of your whole site. * Thread Starter [pro_shine81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pro_shine81/) * (@pro_shine81) * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-header-change-width/#post-548420) * Thanks for the quick answer! But… * I went through the php files and the css file and the whole things seems to be like that: * In the **style.css** file is a div container called outline: * > #outline { > width: 855px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; background: #fff; font- > size: 1.3em; } * plus the predefined header: * > #header { > width: 100%; height: 118px; background: transparent url(images/header_bg. > gif) repeat-x left top; } * In the **header.php** it says: * > >

> * Now if I change the width of outline to 100% everything is stretched to 100%, but I just want to have the header_bg.gif changed to 100%. * How can I change this? Cheers! * [jabecker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabecker/) * (@jabecker) * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-header-change-width/#post-548475) * If you move the line: * `

` * underneath the line: * `

` * that will move your header outside of “outline” so that the width of outline doesn’t apply to header. * Note that this might screw up other things in your theme. But if it does you can always move it back. * You should also [validate](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yochitosway.de%2F). Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘please help: header – change width’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/) * [layout](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/layout/) * [width](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/width/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [jabecker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabecker/) * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-header-change-width/#post-548475) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics