White Space in Discussion Topics

[Chris_Hofer]

I noticed today that there is a lot of unused white space when drilling down to the actual content of a Discussion topic.  See this example...

Here's the "Discussion" page...notice no white space.

Here's a view of the details of a Discussion topic.

I'm not sure why this white space exists or cannot be filled in with content.  Why not widen the discussion area to fill in the white space?  Is there CSS or JS code that could be added to fill in this white space?  Would adding code to our global files affect those with smaller screens?

[MattHanes]

Well the code to remove that blank space is easy enough: $("#right-side-wrapper").remove();

The trick would be to get it to only run on those discussion topics pages. I think a regular expression would be useful here, but alas, I am no programmer.

[erinhmcmillan · Accepted solution]

Hey, Chris,

Sorry that you hadn't received a reply to this question yet. The white space is a placeholder for the content selector sidebar. When a user replies to the discussion the sidebar displays in the page.

Hope that helps,

Erin

[Chris_Hofer]

Thanks for the reply, erinhallmark​. Makes sense.  Just was curious why the white space existed while viewing a discussion vs. editing a discussion.