color full width?

[Stephen_Peters]

I'm working on porting a site from Wordpress to Weebly. On the original site, I built div's with a blue background color that went the full width of the content area, see screenshot below:

original version

The closest I've been able to get to in Weebly is shown in the screenshot below:

weebly version

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make the blue box wider than the default text content column?

Thanks for your help.

[whitemonkey]

@Stephen_Peters 

drag a "section element" to the page ,   change to desired color

[Stephen_Peters]

There is no "section" element available on the Build screen.

Further searching around digs up this:

"Note: Sections is not available for older, non-responsive themes or custom themes."

https://www.weebly.com/blog/sections-flexible-headers-and-video-backgrounds/

I started with a theme right out of the standard Weebly library called "Cento", appears Weebly's own themes aren't up to date.  If this information is accurate I'll have to dig around and find a new theme to be building on.

The site in question can be viewed here: http://ptldev.weebly.com

It's otherwise 90% done.

[whitemonkey]

@Stephen_Peters 

can u screenshot ur editor page   

i use Cento,  its customized     and have a SECTION  

suggest using a newer theme IF u are using an older one

[Stephen_Peters]

Here you go. There's no "section" element in the space all the examples say it should show up. I don't know how the theme could be old – I just selected it from the Weebly default library in December.

[PaulMathews]

@Stephen_Peters Did you modify your page header html? This is the structural html for each page header type and is reached in the Code Editor (in the Site Editor, click Theme > Edit HTML/CSS and you'll find the page header types at the top of the left-hand sidebar). If you removed the section mustache elements from the html, that may remove the section element from appearing in your Site Editor tools sidebar (because the absence of the section mustache elements will make the Editor think that it's dealing with an older Weebly theme).

[seicolegwr]

@Stephen_Peters 

One of my websites uses a highly customised Cento theme and SECTION element is still there on the left under STRUCTURE. This is strange.

This may be helpful, though

https://editortricks.weebly.com/how-to-add-weebly-4s-section-element-to-your-modified-older-or-third...

Gary

[whitemonkey]

@Stephen_Peters  @seicolegwr       yup wierd     have u tried selecting another theme?    just to see it u get the SECTION element?

also   set up a 2nd site, a free one,    and use select the same theme, to see if the element exists

[whitemonkey]

@Stephen_Peters @seicolegwr 

which CENTO theme are you using... there are 5 of them not counting any that are under OLDER THEMES

and the SECTION exists for all 5

what can cause this?   browswer type?    upto date or out of date..