Changing Module Display Width

[johnnyboy]

@broberg

Ahhhhhhhhh… Gotcha ;-)… reduce the % of the container also reduces it’s contents in relation. Thanks.

[broberg]

@johnnyboy well, not entirely, the content (text etc.) don’t change in size, all you do is changing the surface that the content can take up.

like moving from a big garage to a small, you still have the same amount of stuff but less area to put it in, so the stuff that doesn’t fit spills over and out on to the yard.

[johnnyboy]

@broberg
Oh, ok… Well I will play about with it anyway just to see what that does to it… just so I will know for experience as its another learning curve i’ve learned

[broberg]

@johnnyboy You can do a lot to the Magicmirror and it’s module just by editing the css,

Here is a good reference for CSS : https://www.w3schools.com/css/

And css for beginners : http://www.htmldog.com/guides/css/beginner/

[johnnyboy]

@cowboysdude said in Changing Module Display Width:

 {
    module: 'MMM-History',
    position: 'top_right',
         config: {
	 maxWidth: "33%"
		}
          },

Oooooo MM didn’t like that :-) So I musta entered something wrong or didn’t enter something I should have? Can you please guide me to what part I did wrong here?

 {
    module: 'MMM-WunderGround',
    position: 'top_left',
         config: {
	 maxWidth: "33%"
		}
          }, 
apikey: 'pws: mydetailshere',
hourly: '1',
fctext: '1'

[broberg]

@johnnyboy maxWidth isn’t specified for the WunderGround module. So you can’t use the same config option there as you could with MMM-History.

Confusing I know, but most modules don’t use size settings in the config since it’s better to set that with css code.

Custom css-code is put in the file custom.css that can be found in the css folder.

[johnnyboy]

@broberg

Ah, ok… I was jumping ahead of myself there… so I will try

.MMM-WunderGround {
    width : 200px;
}

200px; or whatever looks good.
Thanks again.

[johnnyboy]

I changed mines to 250px as that was about maxed out or else it would move the large Moon icon onto top bar and would become 1/3 of its original size and not look right, or look good… so I’m pretty happy at that.

However, I thought to do the same thing to the calendar that’s directly opposite, on the top right…to keep the aspect look… Nope! It wont budge for some reason?
Side effect now is a slight 5 - 7 second load time to WunderGround, Calendar, and News feed on bottom bar… No idea if this is linked or no?No effect at all on Compliments or SimpleLogo.
.Module_calendar {
width : 250px;
}

No idea if this is relevant, but should I have included the calendar header Uk Holidays? My calendar is also linked to Google Calendar so no idea if that could be a reason either why it wont allow width to be adjusted, but thought to mention

[broberg]

@johnnyboy I think it should be just .calendar not .Module_calendar

[johnnyboy]

@broberg
ok will try that now… Yes that did it… I didn’t know not to include .Module there… Thought they all had the same command, apart from MMM