# Can I change the width of a Markdown cell?

**URL:** https://talk.observablehq.com/t/can-i-change-the-width-of-a-markdown-cell/1557
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [January 6, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/can-i-change-the-width-of-a-markdown-cell/1557 "2019-01-06T19:55:27Z")
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### Author: ![acypher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@acypher](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/acypher)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/can-i-change-the-width-of-a-markdown-cell/1557/1 "2019-01-06T19:55:27Z")

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All of the Observable notebooks I’ve seen wrap md text to a width of about 700px. Is it possible to change that width?

I’ve looked at the [markdown entry](https://github.com/observablehq/stdlib/blob/master/README.md#markdown) in the Standard Library, the [marked.js documentation](https://marked.js.org/#/README.md#README.md), and Daring Fireball’s documentation, but I can’t figure out how to get the width to change.

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### Author: ![tom](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/tom/32/2262_2.png) [@tom](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/tom)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/can-i-change-the-width-of-a-markdown-cell/1557/2 "2019-01-06T21:45:41Z")

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Sure thing: the max width is set by our default stylesheet, just to establish some readability by default. You can override it with a stylesheet in your notebook: here’s an example: [https://beta.observablehq.com/d/1b3dd309af285e51](https://beta.observablehq.com/d/1b3dd309af285e51)