Title: Website background width extends strangely
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Website background width extends strangely

 *  Resolved [yandoos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yandoos/)
 * (@yandoos)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-background-width-extends-strangely/)
 * Hiya I’m not sure if you can help me but when I view the website on a smart phone
   the background (lightish grey) seems to extend about 50% extra the width of the
   entire website to the right. Theres no overflow scroll bar and the css says overflow
   is hidden anyway.
 * Any idea why this is or how I can fix this please?

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-background-width-extends-strangely/#post-4370133)
 * Please post a link to your site so someone can see what the problem may be.
 *  Thread Starter [yandoos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yandoos/)
 * (@yandoos)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-background-width-extends-strangely/#post-4370134)
 * [https://the-powerofyou.co.uk](https://the-powerofyou.co.uk)
 * It works fine on a computer but when I try it on a HTC or Samsung galaxy the 
   background seems to extend.
 * Thank you
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-background-width-extends-strangely/#post-4370135)
 * Isn’t that just because of your social icons at the top?
 *  Thread Starter [yandoos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yandoos/)
 * (@yandoos)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-background-width-extends-strangely/#post-4370138)
 * Yes your right! I’ve just removed them and the width is fine… Thats strange. 
   Could it be that the divs for the social buttons are too wide? They are set to
   100%. I thought they would not overflow…
 *  Thread Starter [yandoos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yandoos/)
 * (@yandoos)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-background-width-extends-strangely/#post-4370140)
 * I set the div as a fixed px and it works fine now… I guess it was because the
   div may have been originally set as % but it was also set as absolute?
 * Thank you very much for you help 🙂

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