I'm strugling with a site trying to change the width of the left column.

I have a special template, and I took all the width in the left column to try to troubleshoot it but still comes with the same size.

I checked in the style.css in themes/default and found this :

td#leftcolumn {width: 170px; border-right: 1px solid #ffffff; font-size:11px;}

I took the 'width: 170px;' out off this statement to see if something changed and refreshed the site and still comes with the same column width size.

what else is controlling it? I checked the main menu and user menu templates and there is only width="100%" which it takes whatever width size is set up.

any why to find out this?

check theme.html in themes/[yourtheme] folder

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I've just tried that and it works...
Maybe your browser has kept the css file in its cache.
Try keeping shift pressed when you click on refresh.

Skalpa.>

I have tryed both advises, sometimes I delete all the content of the cache (tempplates_c) and refresh, and this is not changing. about the theme.html that's the file I'm working on, I adapted a template for it and somehow is not changing the left column width.

http://www.abctyping.com

I took all the blocks from showin on left column to troubleshoot it.

Bazus,

it would be better if you set up your left column's width as a percentage and not a fixed width. This way it could adapt to your visitor's browser window more easily.

Now, there are two ways to do so. You can either change the td#leftcolumn value from '170px' to something like '20%' or '30%', or you could hardcode it into your theme by doing something like:

<td id="leftcolumn" width="20%"....>

... etc. I hope you get my point. Now, the widths of the usermenu and mainmenu are always in respect to their parent elements, which in this case is the leftcolumn id!

Please note, that if you specify a width in your CSS file, then this will over-ride the value you specified in your theme.html file. So, choose one of those two and avoid using fixed widths