Title: WordPress 3.9 – Visual Editor changes width
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress 3.9 – Visual Editor changes width

 *  [JordanCS13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jordancs13/)
 * (@jordancs13)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-39-visual-editor-changes-width/)
 * Just updated, and I don’t have some of the other issues that people are mentioning
   here, but I do have a problem with the visual editor. Instead of staying constrained
   to the size of my site (post width), it now scales with the browser. As I do 
   inline images, often to the right or left with text surrounding, I can’t properly
   lay out a post at the moment. The page width works correctly in ‘distraction 
   free editing’ mode, but I don’t really like to work in that mode…just want it
   to stay at the site width in the visual editor.
 * Any suggestions?

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 *  [Hardeep Asrani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hardeepasrani/)
 * (@hardeepasrani)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-39-visual-editor-changes-width/#post-4819139)
 * WordPress’ visual editor has a default width & it doesn’t work according to the
   width of your post in front-end.
 * If you want, you can use this to style the editor: [https://codex.wordpress.org/TinyMCE_Custom_Styles](https://codex.wordpress.org/TinyMCE_Custom_Styles)
 *  Thread Starter [JordanCS13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jordancs13/)
 * (@jordancs13)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-39-visual-editor-changes-width/#post-4819245)
 * What I’m saying is the default width isn’t working either…it simply is scaling
   to the width of my browser now (so on full screen, the visual editor is showing
   a page width, including element layout, of around 1600 pixels wide). This worked
   perfectly in all the 3.8.x versions previously…frankly all the versions prior
   to 3.9 for the past two and a half years.
 *  [Hardeep Asrani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hardeepasrani/)
 * (@hardeepasrani)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-39-visual-editor-changes-width/#post-4819268)
 * Oh, if you thing it’s a bug, then you should create a ticket at: [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/)
 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-1391468)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-39-visual-editor-changes-width/#post-4819304)
 * Same problem here. I worked around it by creating a theme file named editor-style.
   css containing the following:
 *     ```
       html .mceContentBody {
       	max-width: 750px;
       }
       ```
   
 * I then added this to my functions.php:
 *     ```
       function my_theme_setup() {
       	add_editor_style( array( 'css/editor-style.css' ) );
       }
       add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'my_theme_setup' )
       ```
   
 * This works fine with 3.9 to limit the visual editor width.
 *  [mariaonpoint](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariaonpoint/)
 * (@mariaonpoint)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-39-visual-editor-changes-width/#post-4819419)
 * Hi,
    I disabled all my plugins and it didn’t work. Any advice?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-39-visual-editor-changes-width/#post-4819423)
 * That sounds like an issue with your theme. Can you reproduce the problem using
   a default theme?

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## Tags

 * [visual editor](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/visual-editor/)
 * [width](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/width/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-39-visual-editor-changes-width/#post-4819423)
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