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Editing articles from the front end of a Joomla website is one of its most useful features. Sometimes, however, if you have both a left and right column, when you try to edit, the editor screen/panel will overlap the right columns and make it difficult to read.

There is a simple trick to you do to hide columns, by adding a conditional statement to the place in the template index.php where the right column occurs.

Somewhere you will probably have a statment where the right column module output is processed.

<?php if ($this->countModules( 'right' ) 
&& JRequest::getCmd('task') != 'edit' ) : ?>
 <div id="rightcol">
 <jdoc:include type="modules" name="right" style="rounded" />
 </div>
 <?php endif; ?>

You can see with the addition of && JRequest::getCmd('task') != 'edit' it will also check to see if an editor is running. If there is, the right column will not be shown and there will be more space for the editor (assuming the template has fluid center column)