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Published: 2011-08-18 23:26:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 20085; Favourites: 600; Downloads: 115
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Description
This doesn't always work. It relies on a bug in dA and is not officially supported.27/08/12 Update
Now transparent - which means it can also be used on widgets with background images, other colours etc. I believe it should work for non-premium members now (let me know if I'm wrong) 
Were you already using it? You may want to replace it if any of these are an issue for you.
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What is this?
Custom boxes and other widgets you put text in usually have a max width of 400px. But with this resource, you can increase the width of the usable space as much as you want!
Put more text, thumbs or whatever you want in it!The code
How to use this?
1. Copy code above.
2. Paste it to the top or bottom* of the text area you want it in.
3. Change the number in the width="450" part to the width you want to have.
4. Faving it would be nice - the more people can use this, the better, right?
And of course you may want to refer back to it in the future too. 
How wide shall I put it?
400 px is the default width. So you'll want to put something larger than this. In my opinion 600 is the max if you want it to be properly visible on most modern normal screens. So 450, 500, 550 or 600 are probably most recommendable - but you can set it any integer value in between those too (like 479, but not 479,294093028)
Where can I use it?
You can use it in the text of the following widgets: featured deviation, favourites, custom, wishlist, gallery folder, collection, critiques, delicious bookmarks, my prints, featured print, donate points, and devID (old style).
*edit* reportedly this doesn't work in combination with OpenDNS or Google DNS.
Have fun customising!
You can find more customisation for your page on CommanderLuminaire .
Some alternatives:
Thanks to DazzlingDecorations , DeviantARTconcept , dAtn and demo-s for requesting to submit this to their gallery
*You can put it somewhere in the middle too, but keep in mind it'll put some extra space in between the top and bottom then.
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I'm posting for the benefit of my fellow deviants who are frustrated about our wider widgets bug being "fixed" in one of dA's recent updates. Add a scrollbar to your custom box here and add 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 It doesn't work....now my page looks crowded again 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 Oh, too bad! Thanks for letting me know. 👍: 0 ⏩: 0 this code and all the other wide widget codes don't work for some reason D: 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 Thanks for letting me know 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 I made fix for it. 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 So... the only difference is the align="right", correct? 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 Actually, I tried it with "center" too and it comes up with the exact same result. Was the original exactly the same besides the link and align? 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 I mean that's the only difference with respect to the original one? 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 I don't know, I forget what the old code was exactly. 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 .... Well damn, it's gone 👍: 0 ⏩: 2 Here it is - and I have no trouble using this version - no need to put a align in there. 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 Thanks!! 👍: 0 ⏩: 2 Ohh. 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 What a difference this has made in my widgets! I've changed the width to 500 or 550 pixels and it really saves space on my profile page, as well as keeping the margins from looking so wide! Thank you so much for creating this 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 I'm glad to hear that! You're welcome 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 I have been having a lovely time fixing my widgets on my sites 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 As far as I know the only way to do so is to edit the image itself. I believe you can't have it repeat, or change the font colours. (It's been suggested but it looks like a bad idea to me...) 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 Thank you! Guess I'll have to figure out just how long to make the background. Since I made so many backgrounds for CSS backgrounds, knew that most would fit a standard journal or would repeat if the journal was long. Doesn't quite work like that for the widgets. Guess I will have to make sure the background will allow the black print to show for the text, or the blue that is used for a live link. 👍: 0 ⏩: 0 Ah, I got comments on that before but I admit I haven't tested in a while. 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 I know people who contacted the help desk .I don't think they're going to do anything about it But Thanks for your tip to ~DrTwoBrainsfan ,I used this as an alternative and it worked 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 What response did they get? Ah yes! 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 I didn't hear from them .I don't think they got a reply or something like that . No problem . 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 The help desk always reply to everything 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 Ah ..Then maybe I should ask them what answer did they get . 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 I actually contacted the help desk. They said that it wasn't an official feature, and therefore they would not fix it. 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 Do you know what the original width of widgets are? 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 It seems to me that the content is by itself around 300px wide 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 Well not the content but the width of the whole original box? 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 Ah, that depends on the window size. It's a little less than half the width of the window. 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 I figured out it was like 600px 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 It may be, for you. But keep in mind that for other visitors of your page it'll be different. 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 Can you look at my page and see if they look aligned? Its the green poka dot boxes. 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 Does a screenshot help? This is what it looks like to me 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 Yeah it looks aligned! Yay! Thank you 👍: 0 ⏩: 1 i dont understand how to use this, i really want to :3 👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Just change the "500" to the desired width.
Well at least there is a code that works now, weather it was identical to the last one or not.
When I have a widget that is really long, and I use a picture from my PhotoBucket that is usually used for a CSS background, is there a way to have it repeat so the bottom half of the widget isn't blank? Take a look at =WDWParksGal-Stock and the widget under my ID is the one I'm referrring to. Also, is there a way to change the font color in a widget code? Thank you!
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