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How do I incease the column width of the results of a search using google?

The search results don't display all words and the URL so I want to be able to increase the column width - I cant see an icon that allows me to do it

The search results don't display all words and the URL so I want to be able to increase the column width - I cant see an icon that allows me to do it

Chosen solution

The full URL is in the link, and an extension or user script could replace the abbreviated green text (<cite> element) with the full link, but I suspect it would need to be custom written, I don't know that you will find anything along those lines right now.

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Hello Steve,

Can you please attach a screenshot of the search result screen,because to my knowledge the search results never lists the complete URL,or the titles.

Update us on that.

Here is screenshot - thanks - attempting to extend across the page

You can expand the column width using a custom style rule. For example:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("google.com.au") {
  div.col, #cnt #center_col, #cnt #foot {
    width: 800px !important;
  }
  div.g div.s {
    max-width: 800px !important;
  }
}

That's about half the width; it may become hard to read if you make it too wide.

What would you think of a multi-column layout? For example, the Greasemonkey userscript "GoogleMonkeyR": https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/2978-googlemonkeyr

Modified by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer

Oh, I see, you want the ... to turn back into text. That doesn't happen if you widen the layout (see attached screen shot), those omissions were made on the server and you would need a more sophisticated method to extract the data.

Thanks jscher - I cant see all the URL which is part of the issue - also I was just trying to fill more of the page width for all searches

regards

I'm currently using borders and CSS counters (I have 100 results per page). userContent.css:

@-moz-document domain(google.com) {

body{counter-reset:res}
#search div.g h3.r a:before {
 content:" ["counter(res)"]"; counter-increment:res;
 color:#906; background-color:#eee; margin-right:5px;
 }

#search div.g, #search div.rgsep {
  border-bottom-color:#222; border-bottom-style:dotted; border-bottom-width:1px;
  margin-bottom:5px!important; padding-bottom:5px!important
 }
#search ._yE {margin-bottom:0px!important;}
}

In some cases, sites may show ... to indicate that the text is too wide to fit into a container, for example, DuckDuckGo does that. But I think Google is actually deleting the text content so even if you enlarge the container, the missing text isn't filled in. I think some kind of add-on would be needed to fix that.

If the missing text isn't in the page source like in this case then there is not much what can be done about it. Only when it is done via CSS then you can influence its behavior.

Modified by cor-el

Chosen Solution

The full URL is in the link, and an extension or user script could replace the abbreviated green text (<cite> element) with the full link, but I suspect it would need to be custom written, I don't know that you will find anything along those lines right now.