Title: Remove space above header – please! Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Remove space above header – please! * Resolved [joecoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joecoll/) * (@joecoll) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-space-above-header-please/) * Hello, * There is some space above the header in this site: [http://thetaxclinic.ie/](http://thetaxclinic.ie/)( my first WP site so the code is a little bloated!) * I have tried to trouble shoot with Firebug, viewed when not logged in etc. but cannot find the issue. * Appreciate if you could take a look at it. * Joe Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [rafalborowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafalborowski/) * (@rafalborowski) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-space-above-header-please/#post-3569271) * For some reason you have a Non-breaking space at the top of body. Find the piece of code that is inserting it there and you are done 🙂 * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-space-above-header-please/#post-3569273) * For some reason there’s a HTML entity just after the `` tag [[screenshot]](http://snag.gy/Rzrze.jpg). * Where did you get that theme from? Have you tried deactivating plugins to explore whether any could be responsible? * [rafalborowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafalborowski/) * (@rafalborowski) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-space-above-header-please/#post-3569276) * Seems like it’s only happening on pages where there is a Google Plus link on top. I would start searching around this plus.google.com link. Can’t tell you more without source. * Thread Starter [joecoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joecoll/) * (@joecoll) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-space-above-header-please/#post-3569285) * Thanks for the very quick and very useful responses! * Found the issue. * This link  ](http://thetaxclinic.ie/”/> ) is creating the space. * Thread Starter [joecoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joecoll/) * (@joecoll) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-space-above-header-please/#post-3569288) * The theme is built (read: cobbled together) on top of the standard WP theme btw Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Remove space above header – please!’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [unwanted space](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/unwanted-space/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 5 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [joecoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joecoll/) * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-space-above-header-please/#post-3569288) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics