How do you change the width of a Container in the Portal

[zag]

I am trying to create a background for a container and size it to be say 1/4 of the page.  I am filling in the sizing but in the container and nothing happens (See Container 2 pic)

Then I go into Column Properties and change all the sizes to 12 and nothing happens (see Column 2 pic) 

What am I missing? Can someone help?

[Siddhnath Pande]

Hi Zag,

In the container 2 pic see the width is fixed change it to fluid & try.

f the above code helps then please mark my answer Correct and Helpful.

Thanks and Regards:
Siddhnath Pandey

[zag]

No difference at all.... thanks anyway

[Siddhnath Pande]

If I am not wrong, you want to add background to 1/4 of the page & you are doing it though the container.

Well, I am sharing an alternative way to achieve this if you want you can try this might help.

After selecting the fluid option you can drag the 3:9 column & than create a widget set the background to that widget & then put that widget into the first column.

[Pranav Bhagat]

So per your ,you are adding the image to container but you need the image for first column .I think you are using 4:4:4:4 layout.

So create a new class in theme and add it in the column class css.

you can now remove the image from container.

eg

.customclass {
 background-image: url("paper.jpg");  //image name
 background-color: #cccccc;
}