Title: Larger header image
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Larger header image

 *  Resolved [dang621](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dang621/)
 * (@dang621)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/larger-header-image/)
 * I’ve installed WP locally and currently playing around with the twenty twelve
   theme.
 * It looks like the max size of the image I can upload to the header is width of
   960px and height of 250px.
 * When I upload my image with the max size dimensions, there is white space above
   and to either side of the header.
 * Is there a way to upload a larger image so that it expands all the way to the
   edges of the webpage and eliminate the borders?

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 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/larger-header-image/#post-3352240)
 * > Is there a way to upload a larger image so that it expands all the way to the
   > edges of the webpage and eliminate the borders?
 * No, there is not.
 * The white space that you see is the padding assigned in page’s layout, if you
   want the width of header image to span full, you have to change the html structure,
   and there will be loads of css to adjust because the theme is responsive.
 * If you only want the look and feel of full span image, you can remove the page’s
   shadow and make site’s background become white (same color as the whole content’s
   area) then the image will be seen (percieved) as full without white space around
   it.
 *  Thread Starter [dang621](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dang621/)
 * (@dang621)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/larger-header-image/#post-3352267)
 * Thanks for responding.
 * The root issue I’m having is that I’d like to create something similar to [http://uncrate.com/](http://uncrate.com/)
   in which the whole top portion of the browser is one color so it looks like the
   banner spans across the entire window.
 * I was told I should try some CSS to make the background have the effect of two
   colors (black up top and white at the bottom) but I can’t achieve the look because
   of white breaks in the header due to the padding.
 * Any creative suggestions on how to get around this without making a huge mess??
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/larger-header-image/#post-3352268)
 * The messy way is not to change your HTML structure and to force your header to
   be as wide as possible with `absolute` positioning. You’ll never get it right
   that way anyway.
 * I recommend using Paul’s advice.
 *  Thread Starter [dang621](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dang621/)
 * (@dang621)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/larger-header-image/#post-3352272)
 * Thanks for the recommendations. I’ll give it a shot.

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 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/larger-header-image/#post-3352272)
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