Is it possible to set the column [one_half] width?

• rl2013

  said

  hi,

  Is it possible to set the column [one_half] width? I tried [one_half width="600"] but not working.

  Thanks

• Steve

  said

  Hi @rl2013,

  That wouldn’t make sense, if you’re setting the width then it wouldn’t be one half? All of the column shortcodes use percentages (eg; one half is 50%) and you can’t change this via shortcode parameter.

• andy

  said

  You could just use HTML instead of a shortcode, which I would recommend instead of layout shortcodes regardless. We include them because people expect them, but I wouldn’t encourage them.

  Basically just set the width with a style tag:

  <div style="float: left; margin-right: 40px; width: 600px">
      Your content here
  </div>
    
  <div style="float: left; width: ???px">
    Width determined by the size area you have available.
  </div>

  The widths and margins in the theme are currently set with % so you will have to choose the exact size of the second container based on the layout/columns you’ve selected for the page and how much area is left over.

• rl2013

  said

  Yes, was thinking of using shortcode one-half will be much more simple to create a 2 columns area than div. Thanks for the suggestion Andy.

• mitchell360

  said

  Is there any possibility that parallelus will migrate to either 960 or Twitter Bootstrap grid frameworks? Both of these (especially Bootstrap) are becoming incredibly common and will reduce complexity (and support questions) for an entire area of your themes!

• andy

  said

  @mitchell360

  It’s extremely unlikely since the Layout Manager relies on the column structure we’ve designed.