# Something recently changed, can't increase \`--topic-body-width\`
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-recently-changed-cant-increase-topic-body-width/293845
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** css
**Created:** [February 1, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-recently-changed-cant-increase-topic-body-width/293845 "2024-02-01T22:18:02Z")
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### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-recently-changed-cant-increase-topic-body-width/293845/1 "2024-02-01T22:18:03Z")
Hi there, I’ve been using a customized width for my forum because most of my users have a strong preference for a wider layout with less whitespace:
```plaintext
:root {
--d-max-width: 1900px;
--topic-body-width: 1244px;
}
```
With the `--topic-body-width` I used to be able to push the timeline and the timeline footer controls to within a few pixels of the right margin on my 1920px browser window. But now with the updates to 3.3.0.beta1-dev even if I use much larger `--d-max-width` and `--topic-body-width` values I can still only make it this wide (screenshot on Meta with those changes applied in the HTML inspector):
It looks like the maximum width of the topic body is about 1040px. I tried eliminating the `min-width` value in `.timeline-container .topic-timeline` but that also doesn’t make any difference. Any tips? Thanks a lot.
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### Author:  [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2024, 5:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-recently-changed-cant-increase-topic-body-width/293845/2 "2024-02-02T05:51:08Z")
Hello 👋
This is, because the [DiscoTOC - automatic table of contents](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discotoc-automatic-table-of-contents/111143) theme component new update calculates the `.container.posts` in percentage. Which is really great I think.
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### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2024, 6:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-recently-changed-cant-increase-topic-body-width/293845/3 "2024-02-02T06:12:20Z")
Thanks very much! I don’t have a lot of TOCs, and there is a strong user preference for wider posts, so I unset it:
```plaintext
.container.posts {
grid-template-columns: unset;
}
```
Should be OK that way right?
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### Author:  [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2024, 6:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-recently-changed-cant-increase-topic-body-width/293845/4 "2024-02-02T06:20:10Z")
By default, this is in core if you don’t use D-TOC. 🔽
So you can revert this percentage changes with this.
```scss
@media screen and (min-width: 925px) {
.container.posts {
grid-template-columns: auto auto;
}
}
```
Or you can make wider the post section with changing the percentages. For example;
```scss
@media screen and (min-width: 925px) {
.container.posts {
grid-template-columns: 80% 20%;
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2024, 6:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-recently-changed-cant-increase-topic-body-width/293845/5 "2024-02-02T06:23:46Z")
Thanks for the reply! I do use D-TOC, but I don’t have a lot of topics that use it, so it doesn’t matter if there is a bit of content shift on the few topics that have a TOC. So to revert to the previous shifty Discourse behavior would you recommend
> [@rahim123](#):
>
> ```plaintext
> .container.posts {
> grid-template-columns: unset;
> }
>
> ```
or
> [@Don](#):
>
> ```plaintext
> @media screen and (min-width: 925px) {
> .container.posts {
> grid-template-columns: auto auto;
> }
> }
>
> ```
?
Thanks again, I never would have found the source of this change without your tip.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-recently-changed-cant-increase-topic-body-width/293845/6 "2024-03-03T06:24:03Z")
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