Modifying content width of the Sphinx theme 'Read the Docs'

Question

I am using \'Read the Docs\' Sphinx theme for my documentation. In the original theme, given below

http://read-the-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/theme.html

Answer 1

Another option is to create a stylesheet in source/_static with just the css you want, e.g.

.wy-nav-content {
    max-width: none;
}

or

.wy-nav-content {
    max-width: 1200px !important;
}

Make sure the directory is referenced in source/conf.py - I believe by default there's a line to do this, i.e.

# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
html_static_path = ['_static']

Then create a custom layout in source/_templates/layout.html and do something like this to include your stylesheet

{% extends "!layout.html" %}
{% block extrahead %}
    
{% endblock %}

Assuming you called your stylesheet style.css