Comments on: How to remove the sidebar from a certain page?

By: Bas

Bas — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:20:43 +0000

I’ve got the same issue as Shipra: how can I just remove one sidebar (secondary aside) from a certain page?

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:45:36 +0000

I’m having the same trouble a plenty of other people… I can get rid of the side bar BUT can’t make use of that space. The page I’m working on is called Sandbox so I edited the CSS to read:

body.sandbox #container {
width: 960px;
}

body.sandbox #content {
width: 940px;
}

It’s still not working though. check it out: http://www.allenjcochran.com/sandbox-2/

Any words of wisdom would be hugely appreciated!

By: Santi

Santi — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:05:49 +0000

Not sure if you’re still around. I’m currently using a child theme I made from Thematic however I can’t really seem to change anything. So far I’ve added a header… All I want now is to have my content centered instead of on the left side, and I’ve tried using this code but it doesnt change anything. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. Any help is appreciated.

By: Greg Turner

Greg Turner — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:45:42 +0000

I am confused by this thread, because thematic has multiple sidebars on a page. This code does not refer to removing a specific sidebar, so I am confused. I want to remove the primary aside sidebar on some pages, and remove the secondary aside sidebar on other pages. How can I do this? Thanks

By: Sorun

Sorun — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:23:48 +0000

You’ve made my day! got sick of that sidebar…

By: Arthur

Arthur — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:11:59 +0000

I got the removal of the sidebar working but I can’t access the space.

I’m using this but it doesn’t work.

body.projectew #container {
width: 960px;
}

body.projectew #content {
width: 940px;
}

Can anyone help?

By: brian

brian — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:38:33 +0000

Thank you for for the clean code, properly implemented in the child theme. Cheers !

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:24:53 +0000

I’ll publish a code snippet in the next days that will auto-hide the sidebar. The end of year rush is keeping me too busy at the moment.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:38:07 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for all the comments. I found it very helpful. However, how do I expand the space on all the pages (what is the code?) and not only on the homepage?

I quote Chris for the home page changes:
We open the child theme’s style.css and add the following code:

body.slug-forum #container {
width: 960px;
}
body.slug-forum #content {
width: 940px;
}

Thanks

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:44:43 +0000

Thank you Chris for your perserverant work with Thematic

Now if we use for instance Context Widget and we would like to set the sidebar only for the frontpage then we have to change the CSS for the home.

I wonder how is possible to make a CSS that collapse (width: 0%) the sidebar column when is empty so if there are no widgets to show. I mean that the CSS automatically expands the width sidebar only when there are widgets.

I read many threats and the solutions are with specific CSS for home/page/category, but not dynamic

Now is when I miss some Joomla templates that they collapse columns when there are not modules for one category or for a detailed post.