A couple users asked me how they can have more horizontal space for their big-screen retool apps. While we don’t officially support it, you can make retool full-width with a few lines of CSS (you can put CSS in a text component ): <style> .retool-canvas { max-width: none !important; } </sty…

Newest update! We've added a setting in Retool to allow you to configure your app's max width. You can click the three dots in the top right corner > App settings > Set canvas max width [image] [image] Let me know if you have any questions about this setting!

Cool hack 🤖 –– full-width retool canvas!

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wheels-justen June 3, 2019, 7:09pm 2

Thank you!

Increased canvas width

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Cool hack 🤖 –– full-width retool canvas!

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