allow wider pages

[fdncred]

Is it possible to decrease the width of the areas marked in red? I'd like to have less wasted space and see more of the information.

[NotTheDr01ds]

Good question - I've noticed that as well from time to time.

The answer is ... "probably"? ;-)

I'll try to look into it, unless @hustcer knows more readily. I'm sure it involves CSS changes.

Might be tricky to get "just right" across platforms. I'm definitely no CSS guru, so not sure.

[fdncred]

I manually hacked mine by turning off this css setting in the red oval. We could also change it to something like width: 90% if we wanted some padding. But I really have no idea how to do that without hacking.

[fdncred]

Some quick research

vuejs/vuepress#1867

[hustcer]

I can expand the content area by 200 to 300 pixels, but it would look ugly if it takes up the full width.

[fdncred]

It seems like it's width = 50%. I'd like to see it at least width = 85%

[hustcer]

It seems like it's width = 50%. I'd like to see it at least width = 85%

That's too wide. It's about 740px currently, I can change it to around 960px (at most 1060px), that's the width of our homepage: https://www.nushell.sh/ or the width of the content area of https://docusaurus.io/docs

[fdncred]

I'm not sure how hard coding it to a px really helps. Is px relative to something or just pixels? People can have ultra-wide monitors, and it will be filled with white space on both sides. That's not super helpful. Seems like a percentage is better so that it works for people with all different shapes of monitors.

[hustcer]

@fdncred I have a clear grasp of what you're thinking，and it's quite easy to fix. However, I disagree with the idea. Space make sense and space make better reading experience. That's why all SSG tools like vuepress, vitepress, hugo, docusaurus, rspress, astro won't use 85% etc. as the default value for their page layout. Let's see what copilot says:

[fdncred]

Thanks @hustcer for discussing this with me. I'm up for trying 1000-ish and seeing how it looks. I still think a % would be better but I'm happy to defer to you and your expertise and try out what you suggest to make it better.

[hustcer]

Thanks @hustcer for discussing this with me. I'm up for trying 1000-ish and seeing how it looks. I still think a % would be better but I'm happy to defer to you and your expertise and try out what you suggest to make it better.

It's deployed

[fdncred]

Definitely better than it was. Notice the boxes have 3 lines vs 5 now and the red boxes are not quite as big. Thanks for working on this.