Need code for exact sidebar width Twenty Twelve

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Here is my site link

Twentytwelve was designed with “responsive” CSS — so the layout resizes according to device/browser width. So the widths are percentages of total window width. If you change those to fixed widths, you will lose all the responsiveness of the theme. Further, changing layout CSS is likely to cause problems in other places in the site. So you might be better off with another theme that has fixed widths.

That said, this is the CSS that sets the widths on that template:
main section:

.site-content {
    width: 65.1042%;
}

sidebar:

.widget-area {
    width: 26.0417%;
}

I don’t want to change those with fixed widths. I want only a little wider sidebar for my images to put in there. If it is adjustable then no problem i am happy with it. Please tell me the best way to increase sidebar width without hurting the original functionality of theme. Thanks

Also change the status of topic to not resolved. the resolved check box pressed suddenly by mistake. ??

Okay, then try adding this to your CSS:

.site-content {
    width: 75%;
}

.widget-area {
    width: 22%;
}

See if that does what you want — also check on other pages to see if they’ve been affected badly.

Its not working for me. And i want to increase sidebar width not the content are.

Okay, then change the percentages to what you want — reduce content and increase widget area.

yes i want 340px for widget area. but will this solve my problem?

Try adding this to your child theme CSS:

#primary {
 width: 55%;
}

#secondary {
   min-width: 340px;
   width: 45%
}

Thanks Wpyogi… but it can be not the good solution as i want to make it responsive. So tell me that this will not hurt my theme on any size display. Secondly, i read it somewhere that i have to change widths on several places to keep the theme uptodate like on mediascreen and blah blah. please guide

a little wider sidebar for my images to put in there

it might help to make the right suggestions, if you add some images to the sidebar, to illustrate the image bahaviour.

you are right, the styles belong into a @media query:

@media screen and (min-width: 600px) {
.site-content {
		width: 62.1042%;
	}
	.widget-area {
		width: 33.0417%;
        }
}

I have similar problem in Twenty Twelve (theme I love), but wanting sidebar to be not as wide, and I don’t want to mess with flexible widths. When I can work out how to do it, I want to put a second sidebar on the other side of the page.
See the giant white space between my sidebar and main content – that’s what I want to shrink!
https://diannetrussell.com/

Hello everybody, I’m new to wp and am working with the theme cinemabazar, need to change the sidebar width of 272px to 310px and I can not using google chrome was found exactly where this field, and was joined there and then wide.css I made the change but does not activate the change, I believe I need now resize the space of my content, but on entering style.css has many fields related to content, could someone help me! please

PS within the style.css file has no field for the width of the sidebar where you can change.

the site is: https://www.vivavidaviaje.com

Thank you!

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