Title: Sidebar Width
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Sidebar Width

 *  Resolved [davidoffski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidoffski/)
 * (@davidoffski)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-35/)
 * Hey everyone,
 * I think the 2015 theme is pretty nice but the sidebar takes way more space than
   it should so it’s taking away valuable room from the main content.
 * I’ve been fiddling around with the stylesheet but cant seem to make it smaller.
 * The sidebar title and navigation widths were easy to manipulate but I cant find
   the attributes for the entire sidebar. I have a feeling I would need to change
   a few things for this to work.
 * Any help would be appreciated,
    Thanks!

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 *  [devonschreiner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devonschreiner/)
 * (@devonschreiner)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-35/#post-5620955)
 * I came to the forums looking for an answer to this as well. The theme looks great
   on smaller screens but the sidebar is far to big on a 1920×1080 screen.
 *  [rachelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rchlldnn/)
 * (@rchlldnn)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-35/#post-5621089)
 * It seems you will need to edit both the widths of **body:before** and **.sidebar**
   to successfully customize the sidebar!
 *  [devonschreiner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devonschreiner/)
 * (@devonschreiner)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-35/#post-5621092)
 * Those two parameters did it, thanks so much Rachelle!
 *  Thread Starter [davidoffski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidoffski/)
 * (@davidoffski)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-35/#post-5621099)
 * Yes! That worked perfectly, thanks for the help Rachelle!
 *  [Alword](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alword/)
 * (@alword)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-35/#post-5621129)
 * I’m fiddling with the width of the sidebar as well.
    Not quite sure how to edit
   the **body:before** and **.sidebar**. Anybody willing to tell me exactly how 
   they did it? Thanks!
 *  [Alword](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alword/)
 * (@alword)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-35/#post-5621140)
 * I figured out you can set the max-width of the body:before.
    But I still haven’t
   figured out how to keep the .sidebar to the left and in proportion with the body:
   before. Any help would be much appreciated!
 *  [abers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abers/)
 * (@abers)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-35/#post-5621223)
 * Does anyone know how to change the max width of the text that appears in the 
   sidebar? On larger screens there ends up being more unused blank space than space
   used for the text.
 *  [Light1c3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/light1c3/)
 * (@light1c3)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-width-35/#post-5621225)
 * So I messed a round with Body:Before and .sidebar, but was sadly unable to get
   the result I wanted. I managed to align the text left, but there is still a lot
   of unused space on the right that just takes space for no reason.
 * could anyone help me figure out what to change there?

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