Title: Decrease width of space between header and content Last modified: September 1, 2016 --- # Decrease width of space between header and content * [CL Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/courtneycannon/) * (@courtneycannon) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/) * Hello all, I am using Photo Perfect theme and my site has a large space in between the header and the content. Can anyone help me figure out what is causing it/ I feel like I have changed the padding in almost every part of the style-sheet! Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 21 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Abhishek Rijal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aveeshek/) * (@aveeshek) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503836) * Hello courtneycannon, * Can you please post URL to your Site? * Thanks. * Thread Starter [CL Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/courtneycannon/) * (@courtneycannon) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503848) * Sorry, I thought I had. It is [http://fiction-atlas.com](http://fiction-atlas.com) * [Abhishek Rijal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aveeshek/) * (@aveeshek) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503854) * Hello courtneycannon, * Please paste in the following styles to your child theme’s style.css * ``` .container { margin: 0 auto; padding-left: 25px; padding-right: 25px; width: 1300px; } ``` * It will remove the extra padding between your header and content. Hope this helps you, Thanks. * Thread Starter [CL Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/courtneycannon/) * (@courtneycannon) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503861) * Thank you, where exactly in the style.css do I put it? I already have something very similar to that in there, but it is what keeps the site title in the center where I want it. * Thread Starter [CL Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/courtneycannon/) * (@courtneycannon) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503864) * I just changed it and sure enough the title box moved way up. * [Abhishek Rijal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aveeshek/) * (@aveeshek) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503866) * Hello courtneycannon, * If the style.css of your child theme already consists of the code, you can simply remove `padding-top:` or put padding pixels as per your requirements. * For the title, Can you paste the CSS you have implemented to put the title in center?? * Thanks. * Thread Starter [CL Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/courtneycannon/) * (@courtneycannon) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503867) * I have no idea I don’t understand much of or really any of this coding. I’ve messed my menu up somehow! * Thread Starter [CL Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/courtneycannon/) * (@courtneycannon) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503868) * Ok fixed the menu back but the title box is still very high compared to before. * Thread Starter [CL Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/courtneycannon/) * (@courtneycannon) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503869) * And now my page is cut off on the side wow I hate messing with this coding! Any ideas what I have done wrong? * [Abhishek Rijal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aveeshek/) * (@aveeshek) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503871) * Can You Please Try This code in your child theme’s style.css? * ``` #site-identity { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.48); margin-top: 190px; padding: 20px; } ``` * _Note: You can set margin top value as per your requirement _ * Hope this helps you. Thanks * [Abhishek Rijal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aveeshek/) * (@aveeshek) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503872) * Are you altering styles of .content selector? * Can you please revert the changes you have made and just paste in the above code and the code i’ve suggested the first time? * Please be cautious while editing the codes.. * Thread Starter [CL Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/courtneycannon/) * (@courtneycannon) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503874) * Nothing happened and my page is still cut off. Why is the page cut off on the left? That makes no sense I didn’t mess with anything else. * Thread Starter [CL Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/courtneycannon/) * (@courtneycannon) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503875) * When it didn’t work the first time that’s exactly what I did pasted the old code back in. * [Abhishek Rijal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aveeshek/) * (@aveeshek) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503878) * I now notice your menu issue, Please set the width of container to auto as below, * ``` .container { margin: 0 auto; padding-left: 25px; padding-right: 25px; width: auto; } ``` * i think this fixes your issue… Let me know if problem persists.. Thanks. * Thread Starter [CL Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/courtneycannon/) * (@courtneycannon) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/#post-7503882) * The menu is back but the page is still cut off on the left side and some of the images seem to be zoomed in though I made sure my zoom was rest Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 21 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Decrease width of space between header and content’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/) * [space](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/space/) * [Stylesheet](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/stylesheet/) * 21 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Abhishek Rijal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aveeshek/) * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-width-of-space-between-header-and-content/page/2/#post-7503892) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics