The container widget only exists because of this reason: Keep the content centered and in the grid.
Now, the container is only a DIV with some settings you can’t change.
So you can build you own container. Start with a div, give it a class like “mycontainer”, set it up for desktop, 960px centered, then continue for tablet the way you want etc.
That’s great and I understand why you are doing it, but I need to expand the with for a client. Their width is set at 1009 and I need to match this from their already live site. Is there a way to overwrite this?
You can give the manual div block that width of 1009 px. There isn’t a possibility yet to overrule the standard grid of webflow. I read this will be a future feature.