Title: Help with widget formatting?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Help with widget formatting?

 *  [JenValencia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenvalencia/)
 * (@jenvalencia)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-widget-formatting/)
 * Hello, everyone! Thanks in advance for any replies to my very newbie question.
   I just started building this website last week, and I’ve been reading dozens 
   of websites and my “24-Hour Trainer” Book about WordPress, trying to learn.
 * I need help formatting my widget area. Can anyone help me figure out:
 * 1) How to get more space between where the first Widget on my side bar appears,
   and the page header on the home page?
 * 2) How do I make the widget boxes “move over” to the right, so they line up and
   right justify with the right-hand edge of the top header on the home page?
 * My website is here: [http://www.jvalenciaphoto.com](http://www.jvalenciaphoto.com)
 * and my css file so far looks like this on my child theme; the parent theme is
   twentyeleven: (don’t laugh, please! I’m SO new!)
 * #page {
    border-style:solid; border:1px solid black; }
 * body {
    font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:80%; color:black;
   background-color:#ffc; margin:1em; padding:0; }
 * body.home {
    background:white; }
 * p {
    line-height:1.5em; }
 * img {
    border-style:dashed; }
 * a {
    text-decoration:none; }
 * #supplementary {
    background-color:#689C48; border-top:1px solid #DDDDDD; overflow:
   hidden; padding:1.625em 7.6%; }
 * #site-generator {
    background-color:#689C48; border-top:1px solid #DDDDDD; color:#
   666666; font-size:12px; line-height:2.2em; padding:2.2em .5em; text-align:center;}
 * .widget {
    background:#9e9786; background:rgba(158,151,134,0.4); border:4px double#
   ffffff; -webkit-border-radius:7px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -o-border-radius:4px;
   border-radius:4px; padding:2px; -webkit-box-shadow:5px 5px 5px rgba(64,31,31,0.5);-
   moz-box-shadow:5px 5px 5px rgba(64,31,31,0.5); box-shadow:5px 5px 5px rgba(64,31,31,0.5);
   list-style-type:none; }
 * Any advice and help on the widgets would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks, and have
   a great day! 🙂

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-widget-formatting/#post-3152986)
 * Try adding this to your child theme style.css:
 *     ```
       #secondary {
           padding-top: 15px;
           margin-right: 0;
       }
       ```
   
 * For future reference, you don’t need to post CSS code here — it’s all visible
   on your site. Also when you do post any code, use the backticks or code button…
   per forum guidelines.
 *  Thread Starter [JenValencia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenvalencia/)
 * (@jenvalencia)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-widget-formatting/#post-3152989)
 * Thanks, WPyogi! I’ll try it out & will also use backticks in the future. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [JenValencia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenvalencia/)
 * (@jenvalencia)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-widget-formatting/#post-3152992)
 * it worked perfectly, thanks SO much!

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 * Last reply from: [JenValencia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenvalencia/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-widget-formatting/#post-3152992)
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