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#1 2010-05-25 02:16:56

Mobilizing Mouse

Member

From: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 22

It seems 'div container' is stubborn to alter with css

Hi everyone

First post

Moving from MT for a blog; my sites I would still want to do by hand

Enjoying everything about Textpattern

I’m just beginning to alter the defaults to what I had before in terms of look and feel

I have designed several dozen websites, but the Textpattern ‘container’ division is not doing what my css is asking of it

I have changed the width to 840px (and probably will go wider) but the lovely Web Developer extension at Firefox shows it still as 780px

I can’t see any ‘importants’ or later overrides, so can anyone let me know what is constraining my ability to move this around?

Thanks so much in advance

Stephen

http://www.mobilizingmouse.com/mobilizingmouse/

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#2 2010-05-25 09:23:35

Gallex

Member

Registered: 2006-10-08

Posts: 1,303

Re: It seems 'div container' is stubborn to alter with css

seems you have found a solution. mine shows 840px

#3 2010-05-25 13:40:47

Mobilizing Mouse

Member

From: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 22

Re: It seems 'div container' is stubborn to alter with css

Gallex

Yes, thanks for the message

Just a few minutes after posting this I of course found the problem

It was the settings for the ‘box model hack’

#container {
\width: 820px;
w\idth: 820px;
}

#sidebar-1, #sidebar-2 {
\width: 150px;
w\idth: 150px;
}

So at least it’s out there

If you wish to alter any of these widths in the main css you’ll need to alter then here too

Thanks again for the response

Take care

Stephen

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‘I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.’
John Cage