# Dashboard Grid Size

You define the size of the dashboard by defining a number of grid squares that the dashboard can contain. Each widget takes up at least one grid square, although you can also configure it to use more space.

You cannot define the absolute size of a dashboard. The grid scales with the size of the dashboard window.

You can size and place your widgets anywhere on the grid, and define the size of each widget as a number of grid squares in width and height.

For example, if you define your grid to be four width by four height, you have sixteen grid squares, which you can use in several ways, such as:

- Sixteen one-by-one widgets:

- Four two-by-two widgets:

- One two-by-four widget, and two two-by-two widgets:

- One two-by-two widget, placed centrally, surrounded by one-by-one widgets:

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