# A wider hamburger menu?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-wider-hamburger-menu/109231
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 15, 2019, 10:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-wider-hamburger-menu/109231 "2019-02-15T10:21:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2019, 10:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-wider-hamburger-menu/109231/1 "2019-02-15T10:21:49Z")
On desktop, I’m finding menu items are getting truncated due to the narrow width of the menu:
Item text is truncated with elipses (as they exceed the CSS-defined `max-width`):
* * *
I considered widening the menu using CSS, but I notice the menu’s style is governed by the DOM:
Any chance the defaults could be raised? The width seems a bit restrictive at the moment, given the available width of the browser window.
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### Author:  [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-wider-hamburger-menu/109231/2 "2019-02-19T22:25:50Z")
@codinghorror @sam I’ve created a PR for your consideration:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7032](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7032)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-wider-hamburger-menu/109231/3 "2019-02-19T22:49:59Z")
Probably OK if you think so @sam
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-wider-hamburger-menu/109231/4 "2019-02-20T02:58:54Z")
Probably fine, will leave it to @awesomerobot to merge as he is far more aware of carious side effects this could have.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-wider-hamburger-menu/109231/6 "2019-02-20T03:09:21Z")
I’d prefer a smaller bump to 320px to start with, which would match the width of the notification dropdown… 360 feels like it introduces a lot of space to the non-category items. I think this looks good to merge otherwise.
For reference:
300px (current width)
320px
360px
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### Author:  [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 8:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-wider-hamburger-menu/109231/7 "2019-02-20T08:17:19Z")
@awesomerobot thanks for taking the time to look into this and to consider the PR.
Just one minor point of note - in those comparisons it looks like the category name max-widths weren’t increased in the 360px version.
If the category name max-widths are increased along with the menu max-width, it helps avoid the truncation of category names.
To me, the truncation of category names is a serious UX problem which unfortunately is not solved by adding only an extra 20px to the menu width
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2019, 3:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-wider-hamburger-menu/109231/8 "2019-02-22T03:02:59Z")
Right I understand, it’s just that 360 feels enormous here… to the point where I’d consider redesigning the menu to make better use of that space (which I’m not opposed too, it’s just not a high priority).
For now I’ve made the change for a small bump to 320, and I’ll keep the truncation in mind for future updates.