# Forum remove fixed width
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-remove-fixed-width/185863
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 7, 2021, 11:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-remove-fixed-width/185863 "2021-04-07T11:26:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@daemon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daemon)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2021, 11:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-remove-fixed-width/185863/1 "2021-04-07T11:26:26Z")
Hi all!
I want to remove the fixed width size and replace it with a percentual value.
How can I do this? I tried so many things out but none of them worked.
Here are two images how it should be at the “homepage”.
And here inside a topic.
So who can give me a hint or directly the code for it?
I would be very grateful!
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### Author:  [@daemon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daemon)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 8:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-remove-fixed-width/185863/2 "2021-04-08T08:58:26Z")
Can no one help me? Please!
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### Author:  [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-remove-fixed-width/185863/3 "2021-04-08T09:41:49Z")
By column width
First we need to redefine `display: flex;`:
```plaintext
.categories-and-latest {
display: block;
}
```
and then, set the width:
```plaintext
.column.categories{
width: 40%;
float: left;
}
```
This is only as a sample. You may have to grab the previous div and take care of the screen width. I have no idea what will happen on mobile devices, and it will require adding more css.
Pay attention to: `display: flex;`. Perhaps there are difficulties in this.
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### Author:  [@daemon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daemon)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 10:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-remove-fixed-width/185863/4 "2021-04-08T10:19:30Z")
Thank you!
What I’m looking for is the css selector for the default width.
I’ve tried .wrap and many others, but none worked. I got them with the inspector.
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### Author:  [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 11:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-remove-fixed-width/185863/5 "2021-04-08T11:14:03Z")
> [@daemon](#):
>
> I’ve tried .wrap and many others, but none worked. I got them with the inspector.
Tried using for `.wrap`
```plaintext
max-width: 100%;
```
and width became 100%
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### Author:  [@daemon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daemon)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 12:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-remove-fixed-width/185863/6 "2021-04-08T12:08:19Z")
If I do this only the header and the footer are 100%.
Am I missing something?
EDIT:
I checked again and insert
```
#main > div #main-outlet {
max-width: 90%;
width: 90%;
}
```
but as you can see in the screenshot it gets overwritten from theme\_11.scss and I don’t know why.
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### Author:  [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-remove-fixed-width/185863/7 "2021-04-08T18:23:48Z")
Try this option.
```plaintext
.categories-and-latest {
display: block;
}
.wrap {
max-width: 90%;
width: 90%;
}
.categories-and-latest div.column.categories {
width: 40%;
float: left;
}
```
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### Author:  [@daemon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daemon)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-remove-fixed-width/185863/8 "2021-04-08T19:26:50Z")
It’s the same as above, it gets overwritten from theme\_11.scss.
It’s really annoying because it worked once but now not anymore.
Edit:
It’s one of the theme components, I have to figure which one.
Got it, it’s the offical “Easy responsive footer”. After removing it the site changed to 90% width.
Maybe @Johani can have a look at it because I would like to have the footer again.
Edit2:
And “Versatile Banner” is “corrupting” the width changes. Maybe @tshenry can have a look, too?