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How to change the width of panels in xml on Splunk version 9.4.1?

yh — Fri, 16 May 2025 07:56:50 GMT

Hi,

I would like to resize the panels that I have in a Splunk row. So I have 3 panels and I referred to some previous posts on doing the panel width resize using CSS. I remember this used to work? But I can't seem to get this working on my current Splunk dashboard. Due to some script dependencies, I am not able to use Dashboard Studio hence still stuck with the classic XML dashboard.

I referred to previous question on this and did exactly like what was mentioned but the panels still appear equally spaced at 33.33% each.

<form version="1">
<label>Adjust Width of Panels in Dashboard</label>
<fieldset submitButton="false">
<input type="time" token="tokTime" searchWhenChanged="true">
<label>Select Time</label>
<default>
<earliest>-24h@h</earliest>
<latest>now</latest>
</default>
</input>
</fieldset>
<row>
<panel depends="$alwaysHideCSS$" id="CSSPanel">
<html>
<p/>
<style>
#CSSPanel{
width:0% !important;
}
#errorSinglePanel{
width:25% !important;
}
#errorStatsPanel{
width:30% !important;
}
#errorLineChartPanel{
width:45% !important;
}
</style>
</html>
</panel>
<panel id="errorSinglePanel">
<title>Splunkd Errors (Single Value)</title>
<single>
<search>
<query>index=_internal sourcetype=splunkd log_level!=INFO
| timechart count</query>
<earliest>$tokTime.earliest$</earliest>
<latest>$tokTime.latest$</latest>
<sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
</search>
<option name="colorBy">trend</option>
<option name="colorMode">block</option>
<option name="drilldown">none</option>
<option name="numberPrecision">0</option>
<option name="showSparkline">1</option>
<option name="showTrendIndicator">1</option>
<option name="trellis.enabled">0</option>
<option name="trellis.scales.shared">1</option>
<option name="trellis.size">medium</option>
<option name="trendColorInterpretation">inverse</option>
<option name="trendDisplayMode">absolute</option>
<option name="unitPosition">after</option>
<option name="useColors">1</option>
<option name="useThousandSeparators">1</option>
</single>
</panel>
<panel id="errorStatsPanel">
<title>Top 5 Error (Stats)</title>
<table>
<search>
<query>index=_internal sourcetype=splunkd log_level!=INFO
| top 5 component showperc=false</query>
<earliest>$tokTime.earliest$</earliest>
<latest>$tokTime.latest$</latest>
<sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
</search>
<option name="drilldown">none</option>
<option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
</table>
</panel>
<panel id="errorLineChartPanel">
<title>Splunkd Errors (Timechart)</title>
<chart>
<search>
<query>index=_internal sourcetype=splunkd log_level!=INFO
| timechart count</query>
<earliest>$tokTime.earliest$</earliest>
<latest>$tokTime.latest$</latest>
<sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
</search>
<option name="charting.chart">line</option>
<option name="charting.drilldown">none</option>
<option name="trellis.enabled">0</option>
<option name="trellis.scales.shared">1</option>
<option name="trellis.size">medium</option>
</chart>
</panel>
</row>
</form>

Re: How to change the width of panels in xml on Splunk version 9.4.1?

bowesmana — Fri, 16 May 2025 08:19:04 GMT

I'm assuming you have the following sort of CSS

#header_row .dashboard-cell:nth-child(1) { width:52% !important; } #header_row .dashboard-cell:nth-child(2) { width:24% !important; } #header_row .dashboard-cell:nth-child(3) { width:24% !important; }

which has stopped working with Splunk 9.4.

You need to add the following for each of your row definitions

#header_row .dashboard-cell { flex:unset; }

It's the flex attribute that is present in 9.4 variants that breaks things, so this fixes it.

Re: How to change the width of panels in xml on Splunk version 9.4.1?

yh — Fri, 16 May 2025 08:24:19 GMT

Thank you so much! How did you all figure it out? Life saver!

Re: How to change the width of panels in xml on Splunk version 9.4.1?

dural_yyz — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:11:26 GMT

This is awesome and just solved my custom panel width issue after banging my head for the last hour. Do you know where this attribute is documented for either behavior or which CSS items are support per version of Splunk.

Re: How to change the width of panels in xml on Splunk version 9.4.1?

bowesmana — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 02:36:05 GMT

I very much doubt there is any kind of documentation - I know this issue has been discussed here and on Splunk Slack channels and there is more than one way to achieve this.

This site is a good resource for this type of question.

Re: How to change the width of panels in xml on Splunk version 9.4.1?

jamest216 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:42:09 GMT

So i was able to implement this flex change. Life saver because this isnt documented anywhere... wondering if you could provide additional help? So I have a panel with 10 singles in them. Before we had changed to 9.4.5 it would break at 5 and then the next 5 singles would go to a second row within the same panel. This response doesnt occur anymore and was wondering if I could get some help.

/* Row Styles */
[id$="_Apps_Row"] {
padding-bottom: 1% !important;
padding-top: 1% !important;
border: 2px solid $fi_background_color$;
border-radius: 10px;
background-color: $fi_background_color$;
box-shadow: 0 0px 4px rgba(126, 151, 173, 0.5), 0 -2px 4px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);
}

[id$="_Apps_Header"] {
padding-top: 4% !important;
}

[id$="_Apps_Row"].dashboard-row .dashboard-panel,
[id$="_Apps_Row"] .panel-title {
background-color: $fi_background_color$ !important;
}

/* Panel Styles */
[id$="_service_panel"] {
background-color: $fi_background_color$ !important;
width: 20% !important;
flex: unset !important;
}

This is what I'm doing in my hidden style row.