Title: Adding Margin/Padding to Image
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Adding Margin/Padding to Image

 *  [livinthecrazy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/livinthecrazy/)
 * (@livinthecrazy)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-marginpadding-to-image/)
 * My text is too close to the image in the standard template… how can I add a margin
   or padding to it to improve it visually? If there’s an existing post, please 
   feel free to point me in that direction. Thanks!
 * [http://www.livinthecrazy.com/still-celebrate-mothers-day-without-kids/](http://www.livinthecrazy.com/still-celebrate-mothers-day-without-kids/)

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 *  [Menaka S.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/menakas/)
 * (@menakas)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-marginpadding-to-image/#post-7360615)
 * Hi,
    Add this to your custom css (or) child theme’s style.css
 *     ```
       .wp-caption.alignleft { margin: 0 10px 10px 0; }
       .wp-caption.alignright { margin: 0 0 10px 10px; }
       .wp-caption.aligncenter { margin: 10px auto; }
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-marginpadding-to-image/#post-7360615)
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