Creating a fixed width master page

The default SharePoint 2013 master page, seattle.master, expands to fill the browser window. In this recipe, we will modify the seattle.master master page to have a fixed width using CSS.

Creating a fixed width master page

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a fixed width master page:

  1. Open SharePoint Designer.
  2. Select Open Site. Enter the complete URL to the SharePoint site and select Open.
  3. From the Navigation pane, select Master Pages.
  4. In the list of files in the Master Pages library, make a copy of seattle.master (for our example, we have renamed it Seattle_FixedWidth.master).
  5. Check out the new Seattle_FixedWidth.master master page.
  6. Open the ...

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