diff --git a/src/components/Timeline.jsx b/src/components/Timeline.jsx
index 0c54cd1..5a119f3 100644
--- a/src/components/Timeline.jsx
+++ b/src/components/Timeline.jsx
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ import * as selectors from '../selectors';
 import hash from 'object-hash';
 
 import copy from '../js/data/copy.json';
-import { formatterWithYear, isNotNullNorUndefined } from '../js/utilities';
+import { formatterWithYear } from '../js/utilities';
 import TimelineHeader from './presentational/TimelineHeader';
+import TimelineClip from './presentational/TimelineClip';
 import TimelineHandles from './TimelineHandles.jsx';
 import TimelineZoomControls from './TimelineZoomControls.jsx';
 import TimelineLogic from '../js/timeline/timeline.js';
@@ -51,8 +52,9 @@ class Timeline extends React.Component {
   }
 
   computeDims() {
-    if (document.querySelector(`#${this.props.ui.dom.timeline}`) !== null) {
-      const boundingClient = document.querySelector(`#${this.props.ui.dom.timeline}`).getBoundingClientRect();
+    const dom = this.props.ui.dom.timeline;
+    if (document.querySelector(`#${dom}`) !== null) {
+      const boundingClient = document.querySelector(`#${dom}`).getBoundingClientRect();
       const WIDTH = boundingClient.width;
       this.setState({ dims: Object.assign({}, this.state.dims, { width: WIDTH }) });
     }
@@ -72,22 +74,6 @@ class Timeline extends React.Component {
     return null;
   }
 
-  renderTimelineClip() {
-    const dims = this.state.dims;
-
-    return (
-      <clipPath id="clip">
-        <rect
-          x="120"
-          y="0" 
-          width={dims.width - dims.margin_left - dims.width_controls}
-          height={dims.height - 25}
-        >
-        </rect>
-      </clipPath>
-    );
-  }
-
   renderSVG() {
     const dims = this.state.dims;
 
@@ -97,7 +83,7 @@ class Timeline extends React.Component {
         width={dims.width}
         height={dims.height}
       >
-        {this.renderTimelineClip()}
+        <TimelineClip dims={dims} />
         <TimelineHandles
           dims={dims}
           onMoveTime={(dir) => { this.onMoveTime(dir) }}
diff --git a/src/components/presentational/TimelineClip.js b/src/components/presentational/TimelineClip.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..29491da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/presentational/TimelineClip.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import React from 'react';
+
+const TimelineClip = ({ dims }) => (
+  <clipPath id="clip">
+    <rect
+      x="120"
+      y="0" 
+      width={dims.width - dims.margin_left - dims.width_controls}
+      height={dims.height - 25}
+    >
+    </rect>
+  </clipPath>
+);
+
+export default TimelineClip;
diff --git a/src/js/timeline/timeline.js b/src/js/timeline/timeline.js
index 4c41b51..b844363 100644
--- a/src/js/timeline/timeline.js
+++ b/src/js/timeline/timeline.js
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ export default function(svg, ui, methods) {
   function update(newCategories, newTimerange) {
     if (hash(categories) !== hash(newCategories)) categories = newCategories;
     if (hash(timerange) !== hash(newTimerange)) timerange = newTimerange;
-
+    scale.x.domain(timerange);
     render();
   }