Title: Remove empty space between post excerpts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Remove empty space between post excerpts

 *  Resolved [flexplorer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flexplorer/)
 * (@flexplorer)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-empty-space-between-post-excerpts/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m trying to remove the empty white spaces in between the post excerpts to give
   my site a tighter look. I believe it has something to do with padding, but I 
   can’t figure it out. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
 * Here’s my site: [here.](http://thefloridaexplorer.com/)

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 *  [Siobhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siobhyb/)
 * (@siobhyb)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-empty-space-between-post-excerpts/#post-4103216)
 * Hey. The extra padding between the bottom of each post’s content and its preceding
   border is being caused by the following CSS:
 *     ```
       #content .post {
       padding-bottom: 3em;
       }
       ```
   
 * This seems to have been inputted via the [Simple Custom CSS plugin](http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/).
 *  [Siobhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siobhyb/)
 * (@siobhyb)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-empty-space-between-post-excerpts/#post-4103217)
 * The empty space between each post’s title and the previous post’s border is being
   caused by the following CSS in the style.css file:
 *     ```
       .site-content article {
       margin-bottom: 72px;
       margin-bottom: 5.142857143rem;
       }
       ```
   
 * To reduce this gap, copy and paste the above into your custom CSS plugin and 
   reduce the values of `margin-bottom` as you wish.
 *  Thread Starter [flexplorer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flexplorer/)
 * (@flexplorer)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-empty-space-between-post-excerpts/#post-4103223)
 * Okay thanks, it looks like it’s working. Do you know how to remove the white 
   space from beneath the “continue reading”?
 *  [Siobhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siobhyb/)
 * (@siobhyb)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-empty-space-between-post-excerpts/#post-4103229)
 * Try:
 *     ```
       #content .post {
       padding-bottom: 0;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [flexplorer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flexplorer/)
 * (@flexplorer)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-empty-space-between-post-excerpts/#post-4103347)
 * That did it! Thanks!
 *  [Siobhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siobhyb/)
 * (@siobhyb)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-empty-space-between-post-excerpts/#post-4103352)
 * You’re welcome. 🙂

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## Tags

 * [empty space](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/empty-space/)
 * [excerpts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/excerpts/)
 * [padding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/padding/)

 * 6 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Siobhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siobhyb/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-empty-space-between-post-excerpts/#post-4103352)
 * Status: resolved

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