Increase the editor width or viewable area in Typora

Question

When writing in the Typora, the viewable width (editor width) is limited.

How could I enlarge from A to B?

Answer 1

You can change CSS file of the theme you are using. Go to File > Preference or press Ctrl+Comma. In Themes click Open Theme Folder.

Open the CSS file of your theme. For example I'm using Github theme.

So I'm opening github.css file. In CSS file go to #write (write id). Here change the value of max-width.

Default value of max-width in this theme is 860px. You can increase this to whatever you want. For example:

max-width: 1200px;

In some themes, you may also find max-width in em instead of px. For example:

max-width: 40em;

Increase this value to whatever width you prefer.

In case you want the editor to be of full width, remove this max-width property entirely.

Answer 2

Typora and responsible width

For the record, you can edit the file as follow.

• Look at the folders where is the CSS (as indicated by itsmysterybox)

• Find the .css file and copy it with a new file. For example github2.css

• Also, copy the folder related with the .css that you copied and rename it with the same name, for example, github2\

• Find the next lines:

  @media only screen and (min-width: 1400px) { #write { max-width: 1024px; } }

  @media only screen and (min-width: 1800px) { #write { max-width: 1200px; } }

And delete it.

• Find the next line

  #write {
  max-width: 860px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 30px;
  padding-bottom: 100px;
  }

And edit the line max-width: 860px; to max-width: 95%;

• Restart the application and select the new theme (see image)

Why 95% instead of 100%?

We are giving it some space for the scroll bar. However, and apparently, 100% also works and it doesn't break any visualization.

Why we need to copy the .css and the folder instead of editing an existing one?

Because updates of the program could (and most likely will) replace it.