# Legend width shouldn't be hard-coded
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-width-shouldnt-be-hard-coded/99023
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 31, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-width-shouldnt-be-hard-coded/99023 "2017-08-31T15:38:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@bh9](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bh9)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-width-shouldnt-be-hard-coded/99023/1 "2017-08-31T15:38:59Z")
The legend width is hard coded to 150px. This causes problems for entries with long names and is compounded with long lists of entries by the scroll bar. While I appreciate that it should have an upper and lower bound, it shouldn't be hard coded. It seems the current value was set to lock the width of the colour palette. I would replace `width: 150px;` (`kibana/src/ui/public/vislib/styles/_legend.less line 44`) with
```auto
min-width: 150px;
max-width: 250px;
```
Feel free to suggest different values for min and max width if you think these are wrong.
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### Author:  [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-width-shouldnt-be-hard-coded/99023/2 "2017-08-31T18:24:23Z")
hi @bh9,
these type of improvements are better logged in the Kibana repo. [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new).
Or, better yet, since you are already suggesting a resolution, I'd recommend submitting a pull request for this. Your fix then becomes part of the Kibana commit-history with your name on it. Guidelines for submitting PRs can be found here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
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### Author:  [@bh9](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bh9)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2017, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-width-shouldnt-be-hard-coded/99023/3 "2017-09-01T08:20:28Z")
OK, will do, last time I made an issue, I was directed here instead so I thought I'd try here first
Update: issue is here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/13813](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/13813)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-width-shouldnt-be-hard-coded/99023/4 "2017-09-29T08:20:39Z")
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