- Making the header/footer span the full width of the screen #206543328

Many of the themes have a fixed width, so that the elements on the page don't span the entire width of the screen. Many people like to have the content at a fixed width, but the header and footer to span the full width of the page.

It is a fairly easy tweak to make. However you will need to have some knowledge of how the Templates work in the platform. This also requires an understanding of HTML.

NOTE: You will have to apply these tweaks to each template used on the site.

If you go to edit the templates, you will see this HTML:

The <div class="Layout container"> is what handles the fixed width of the site. We want the header (and its surrounding div class) to be outside the fixed width. To do this, we just need to place the HTML above the <div class="Layout container"> line.

NOTE: You will want to replace the class "row" with the class "clear". The "row" class will put 15px of margin on either side, leaving a horizontal scroll bar on the page. The "clear" class adds 15px of padding, and won't cause the horizontal scroll bar to appear.

And that is all you need to do to put the header outside of the fixed width. The same principle applies towards the footer. Move the footer text below the closing div for the <div class="Layout container">. This will make the footer full width.