Title: Sidebar top margin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Sidebar top margin

 *  [mroberts500](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mroberts500/)
 * (@mroberts500)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-top-margin/)
 * Good day,
 * I am using the Circo Theme, my website is: [http://www.marketingbymara.com](http://www.marketingbymara.com)
 * I would like to know how to get the top margin of the left sidebar to be smaller.
   At the moment, when I load the page the newsletter subscription text is too low
   down and isn’t immediately visible – I would like it to be much closer to the
   top of the sidebar.
 * It would be great if I could to this for the main content box to- so that it 
   is balanced.
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Edward Caissie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cais/)
 * (@cais)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-top-margin/#post-1573763)
 * Open you style.css file and look around line 308 for the following:
 *     ```
       .leftsidebar {
         margin-top:10px;
         padding:20px;
       }
       ```
   
 * Try changing it to this:
 *     ```
       .leftsidebar {
         /* margin-top:10px; */
         padding:0 20px;
       }
       ```
   
 * See how that looks …
 *  [WP Libra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbum/)
 * (@wpbum)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-top-margin/#post-1573940)
 * If you want it even higher than you can change
 *     ```
       .container_16 .grid_5 {
       width:280px;
       }
       ```
   
 * to
 *     ```
       .container_16 .grid_5 {
       margin-top:-30px;
       width:280px;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [mroberts500](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mroberts500/)
 * (@mroberts500)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-top-margin/#post-1574059)
 * Thanks for the help Edward. It did move it up- would it be possible to move it
   up a little more?
 * Also, I would like to change the main content box to be the same?
 *  Thread Starter [mroberts500](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mroberts500/)
 * (@mroberts500)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-top-margin/#post-1574060)
 * sorry, I should explain, I don’t have the .container…code in my style sheet
 *  [Edward Caissie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cais/)
 * (@cais)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-top-margin/#post-1574069)
 * Try changing to this (from above):
 *     ```
       .leftsidebar {
         margin-top:-25px;
         padding:0 20px;
       }
       ```
   
 * … and, around line 254 in style.css:
 *     ```
       .middle_content {
         margin:-25px 0 0;
         padding:20px 30px 20px 20px;
       }
       ```
   
 * See how that looks … the controlling property is ‘margin’ for this example.

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 * [margin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/margin/)
 * [sidebar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sidebar/)

 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Edward Caissie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cais/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-top-margin/#post-1574069)
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