Title: Header resize and decrease “search” box
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Header resize and decrease “search” box

 *  [nessa30](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nessa30/)
 * (@nessa30)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-resize-and-decrease-search-box/)
 * I am a total wordpress newbie and helping a friend with her blog.
    I’ve updated
   the header but can’t seem to figure out how to increase the header size, have
   tried in style.css but to no avail. I also want to decrease the “search” box,
   which I realize is perhaps a background image incorporate in the theme, which
   is tofurious.
 * here is the blog address: [http://www.hillarymaybery.com/blog/](http://www.hillarymaybery.com/blog/)
 * any help would be much appreciated!
    thnx

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-resize-and-decrease-search-box/#post-1447599)
 * The them on your site doesn’t have any header dimensions set within the stylesheet.
   Which means that it will expand to enclose whatever is inside it. If you want
   to make it deeper or wider, you’ll need to set up specific dimensions in the 
   stylesheet.
 * as for the search box, edit style.css and delete:
 *     ```
       .holder ul li.search span {
       background:url("images/search.gif") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
       display:block;
       height:33px;
       padding:6px 8px 0;
       width:171px;
       }
       ```
   
 * then delete `border:none;` from:
 *     ```
       .holder ul li.search span input {
       background:none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
       border:none;
       width:171px;
       }
       ```
   
 *  [nsathees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsathees/)
 * (@nsathees)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-resize-and-decrease-search-box/#post-1447612)
 * your header do not have any container such as <div>header</div> thus cant increase
   or decrease it. Put them in a <div id=’header’></div> than you can control it
   within css using #header{height:200px;} for example.
 *  Thread Starter [nessa30](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nessa30/)
 * (@nessa30)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-resize-and-decrease-search-box/#post-1447718)
 * Thanks for the info. I tried what you stated about the search box. I am still
   trying to figure out what you mean for the resizing of the header.
    For example,
   could you explain more about “Put them in a <div id=’header’></div> than you 
   can control it within css using #header{height:200px;} for example.”?
 * thanks!

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