Header Widget Within Metro

[bassjammParticipant Post count: 15]

Hi all…

I’m trying to widen the header widget area within my Metro child theme.

Here’s my site – http://injuryfree.me

My attempts within the css file have just widened all the widget areas/sidebars which obviously isn’t cool.

How do I single out the Header Widget area and customise the width and all that?

Thanks in advance

Jamie

[sanjeevParticipant Post count: 22]

You can check the below thread, I have given the css to increase the width of widget there…you can change the values accordingly

http://www.studiopress.com/forums/topic/468px-banner-in-metro-theme-header-area/

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[tomosParticipant Post count: 12]

I was going to say the same as @sanjeev in terms of what you need to do.

Simply put, as the widget is within header div you need to be more specific when targeting the widget itself. Therefore you can target the header (#header) itself, then the widget (.widget-area) within like so (#header .widget-area). You’d also need to reduce the title width as that would force things down.

I played about with the Chrome Inspector on your site and these values should work for you:

#title-area { width:29.62962962963%; /* 100(320/1080) */ }

#header .widget-area { width:56.944444444444%; /* 100(615/1080) */ }

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[bassjammParticipant Post count: 15]

Thanks for that guys.

So do I need to simply add that code to the bottom of my  css file, or do I need to replace the current styling with the style mentioned here?

[bassjammParticipant Post count: 15]

Woah…I’ve redone all of that following the instructions and it’s totally screwed the layout up!

Any ideas?

[tomosParticipant Post count: 12]

Found it.

Try this. Open up your style.css file:

1) Go to Line 451, and change:

.footer-widgets-1,
.footer-widgets-2,
.footer-widgets-3,
.sidebar,
.subnav-left,
width: 31.111111111%; /* 336px / 1080px */
}

to

.footer-widgets-1,
.footer-widgets-2,
.footer-widgets-3,
.sidebar,
.subnav-left {
width: 31.111111111%; /* 336px / 1080px */
}

( notice how .subnav-left has the symbol { instead of using a comma )

2) Right at the bottom of the file, remove this bit of code:

#header .widget-area { float: right; padding: 14px 0 0; width: 468px;

Things should look better then (doing these 2 things fixes the layout issue on my mac).

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Twitter – @tomoswyn

[bassjammParticipant Post count: 15]

Awesome!

DONE!

Now…how do I stop the site header/name getting cut on the right hand side? You’ll see it’s kind of chopped off a bit.

Really appreciate the help dude!

[tomosParticipant Post count: 12]

Right at the bottom of the style.css file change:


#title-area {
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 18px 0 0 20px;
width: 298px;
}


to:


#title-area {
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 18px 0 0 20px;
}


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Twitter – @tomoswyn

[bassjammParticipant Post count: 15]

Thanks for that…I was just figuring out it was that bit as it happens. Much appreciated!

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