Thank you for the ideas, Tim. I like the idea of the wide_layout.html. I'll poke around and see if I can find where web2py sets the page width.
Cheers! Austin On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Tim Richardson <t...@growthpath.com.au> wrote: > > Tip, in case you didn't know: exploring CSS with a tool like Firefox's > Firebug is a great way to quickly work out which css in which file is > driving what you see. > Learning Firebug or its equivalent (like Chrome's developer tools) is pretty > useful with modern sites since there are so many sources of CSS. > > > 100% means the grid is as wide as its enclosing DIV, which you know of > course. So you're correct, you want to make the whole page wider. Explore > the CSS above, using a tool like Firefox. > On a default page (an app copied from the welcome app) you'll see that the > grid is probably contained in a container class div; the width comes from > the bootstrap css I think. There are few approaches to how you provide a > wider screen. You can put css directly into this specific view, or you can > adjust your layout.html, or make a layout_wide.html and use that in pages > which you need to be wider. > > > It may be considered an unusal request here because most people are > conscious of keeping sites responsive to different screen widths. Perhaps > you can redesign your form so that people click buttons or links to view > additional information about a record. > > > > > On Sunday, 9 March 2014 12:36:13 UTC+11, Austin Taylor wrote: >> >> yeah I mean the entire grid wider. I know its at 100%, but I'm not >> sure how to make the overall layout of my grid bigger. I guess I would >> have to increase the default css layout? >> >> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Tim Richardson <t...@growthpath.com.au> >> wrote: >> > When you say larger, do you mean wider? >> > It defaults to 100% as you say, so I don't understand what you are >> > experiencing and what you want instead. >> > >> > -- >> > Resources: >> > - http://web2py.com >> > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >> > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >> > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/HMCeGJ4BitM/unsubscribe. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> > web2py+un...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/HMCeGJ4BitM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
