Title: editing widget html
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# editing widget html

 *  [DavidJWall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidjwall/)
 * (@davidjwall)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-widget-html/)
 * i’ve been having issues editing html and css (less so with the css) when i’m 
   wanting to further edit the layout on an added widget. When i inspect the website
   in chrome on my local server and find the code i want to manipulate i then navigate
   to the “source” tab in the inspector to find the location of the code to be changed
   and then it directs me to an index file in a folder in my htdocs folder (where
   i’m running my wordpress sites out of) and the file doesn’t actually exist there
   on my computer. This keeps happening over and over so there’s something i’m not
   getting here. Are widget files not stored on my computer/local server where they
   can be edited?

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 *  [csloisel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csloisel/)
 * (@csloisel)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-widget-html/#post-5651161)
 * Well you can’t directly locate the php file containing the markup from the browser,
   as far as the browser is concerned it is only being served a single html file.
   You need to look in the plugins folder for the widget plugin you added and see
   if you can find the template.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-widget-html/#post-5651258)
 * what widget?
 * generally, there is little chance in editing the html of the default WordPress
   widgets (without haccking core code which is strongly discouraged);
    for some
   widgets, there might be plugin alternatives which you could edit.
 *  Thread Starter [DavidJWall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidjwall/)
 * (@davidjwall)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-widget-html/#post-5651366)
 * Thank you for the replies. I’m using the google maps widget. It has a <h3> for
   a title above the map. I don’t want anything above the map so I removed the text
   but now the map is still pushed down a bit. I want it to be inline with the content
   beside it. If i could just delete the <h3>, it would be pretty close. Is there
   a way to upload a screen shot here? I’ve looked through the widget file a bit.
   Pretty confusing for a beginner with only a basic understanding of css/html.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [DavidJWall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidjwall/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-widget-html/#post-5651366)
 * Status: not resolved

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