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If you want a wider look to the forum (technical)

If like me you find the width of the new forum unbearable on tablets or desktop and are feeling fairly tech savvy you can do the following:

  • Download the “Stylus” browser extension – it’s available for Firefox, Chrome and Opera browsers from https://add0n.com/stylus.html. The links to download the extension are in the top right hand corner of the page.
  • Install the extension and it should appear in you browsers toolbar as a little blue box something like {S}.
  • Open the forum in your browser.
  • Click the blue {S} button in the browser tool bar and a white box will appear. Under “Write style for:” click on the “www” part of the link given (http://www.key.aero/thisURL). Nothing else, you must click on just the www.
  • This will open up a style editor in a new browser tab. It looks daunting but don’t worry, you can ignore most of the bells and whistles.
  • In the big white “Code” box you want to copy and paste in the following CSS code. You want everything starting with .container and ending with the curly bracket. Ignore the big quotation mark at the beginning.

.container {
    max-width: 90%
}
.col-sm-2 {
    flex: 0 0 200px;
    max-width: 200px;
}
.offset-sm-2 {
    margin-left: 200px;
}
.post-date {
    font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;
    font-size: 1em
}

  • Press the “Beautify” button to re-flow the code to make it tidy and then assuming it’s not showing any red or yellow warnings, press the “Save” button and close the browser tab.
  • If all went well, the forum will no longer be squashed in the middle and expand to fill up 90% of your browser width.

I appreciate this might be a bit techy but it’s about as simple as I could make it. If you’re feeling brave you can change the max-width value as you wish to find something that suits you.

Technical explanation: This browser extension allows you to override the style sheets on websites that control the page layout with your own. That’s all this is doing, it’s overriding certain parameters of the default forum style with this one to make it wider.

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By: TonyT - 25th November 2019 at 19:28

So now it just looks dreadful, but now in widescreen? 

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By: jamesm - 25th November 2019 at 09:57

The forum has been widened now.

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By: MFowler - 23rd November 2019 at 22:16

Thanks for posting this! Key Aero might want to hire you as a forum troubleshooter. ?

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