diff --git a/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/css/maven-classic.css b/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/css/maven-classic.css
index 92346546..f4e5e5d4 100755
--- a/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/css/maven-classic.css
+++ b/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/css/maven-classic.css
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ div#banner {
  border-right: 1px solid @UI_NAVCOL_BORDER_RIGHT@;
  border-bottom: 1px solid @UI_NAVCOL_BORDER_BOTTOM@;
  border-top: 1px solid @UI_NAVCOL_BORDER_TOP@;
+ width: @UI_NAVCOL_WIDTH@;
+}
+
+#bodyColumn {
+  margin-left: @UI_NAVCOL_WIDTH@;
 }
 
 #navcolumn {
diff --git a/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/ui.properties b/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/ui.properties
index c4672d6c..c0fc1cbf 100644
--- a/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/ui.properties
+++ b/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/ui.properties
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ maven.ui.navcol.foreground.ns4 = #555
 maven.ui.navcol.border.top = #fff
 maven.ui.navcol.border.right = #aaa
 maven.ui.navcol.border.bottom = #aaa
+maven.ui.navcol.width=20%
 maven.ui.breadcrumbs.background = #ddd
 maven.ui.breadcrumbs.foreground = #000
 maven.ui.breadcrumbs.border.top = #fff
diff --git a/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml b/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
index a73709cb..d42ba408 100644
--- a/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="1.10" date="in SVN">
+      <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPXDOC-178" due-to="Phil Steitz"><code>maven.ui.navcol.width</code> has no effect.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPXDOC-176">When there's no user provided documentation, some generated docs don't get copied to site.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPXDOC-175" due-to="Phil Steitz">Menus with <code>type="header"</code> are not processed by <code>site.jsl</code>.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPXDOC-174">Unclear error message when <code>&lt;currentVersion/&gt;</code> in <code>project.xml</code> file not defined.</action>