Comments on: Almost there: trimming the sidebar http://walt.lishost.org/2007/06/almost-there-trimming-the-sidebar/ The library voice of the radical middle. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2007/06/almost-there-trimming-the-sidebar/comment-page-1/#comment-28616 walt Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:12:20 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=561#comment-28616 Peter,

I would swear I already tried that–but maybe I did and failed to refresh the view window, before reversing the change.

In any case, the fix does work. Thanks!

]]> By: Peter Murray http://walt.lishost.org/2007/06/almost-there-trimming-the-sidebar/comment-page-1/#comment-28612 Peter Murray Sun, 03 Jun 2007 02:24:37 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=561#comment-28612 Walt –

I think a solution is to bump up the width of the #sidebar. With a little experimentation using Firebug, I found that if this change was made to http://walt.lishost.org/wp-content/themes/letterhead/style.css then the wrapping disappeared:

#sidebar {
margin-left:545px;
padding:20px 0pt 10px;
width:210px; /* was 190px */
}

There didn’t seem to be any harmful side effects to making this change (although the width entries for #page and <body> may need to be increased by 20 pixels as well).

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