Title: Changing borders/ margins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Changing borders/ margins

 *  [justmarc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justmarc/)
 * (@justmarc)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-borders-margins/)
 * I am very new to the world of WordPress, so I apologise is this question sounds
   obvious, prior to posting this I search a fair amount in attempt to find an answer
   to my problem but to be honest I wasn’t even entirely sure what I was searching
   for.
 * My problem is:
 * I would like to remove the borders/ margins (not entirely sure what they are 
   called but for lack of a better word – the line at the top and bottom of the 
   page) from my blog and basically make the header and footer areas smaller, vertically.
 * My site can be found here: [http://dysconnect.me](http://dysconnect.me)
 * Thanks in advance and apologies again is this question sounds dumb or obvious.

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 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-borders-margins/#post-1779040)
 * All the areas you want to change are defined by styles in the theme’s default
   stylesheet `wp-content/themes/thematic/library/styles/default.css`.
 * Line 95 – Remove the bottom border from the `#access` style
    Line 834 – Remove
   the top border from the `#footer` style Line 838 – Adjust the padding on the `#
   siteinfo` style, this makes up your footers height(mostly) Line 65 – Again adjust
   padding on the `#branding` style, this makes up your headers height(mostly)
 * If the theme provides a facility for entering CSS(like an option field of some
   kind), then it’s probably a good idea to put some CSS over-rides into that field
   instead of adjusting the stylesheet, which will avoid your CSS changes getting
   lost if the theme is updated. Honestly though, i’m not familiar with that theme,
   so i can’t really comment on the most ideal place to make the changes(might be
   worth consulting the theme’s FAQ/Docs).

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## Tags

 * [Borders](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/borders/)
 * [footer](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/footer/)
 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [margins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/margins/)

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 * Last reply from: [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-borders-margins/#post-1779040)
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