Title: Spacing issue
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Spacing issue

 *  Resolved [El Sledgo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/el-sledgo/)
 * (@el-sledgo)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spacing-issue-7/)
 * I’m using Tippy 5.3.0. Am trying to get a tip without header to popup, hence 
   just the text needs to be displayed on mouse-over. I am trying to reduce the 
   spacing at the top and bottom of the displayed text and am wondering what custom
   CSS tweaks I need to apply.
 * [Screen grab of the issue](http://i44.tinypic.com/syl9uu.png)
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/tippy/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/tippy/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Chris Roberts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/columcille/)
 * (@columcille)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spacing-issue-7/#post-3973000)
 * are you using header=”off” in the shortcode? That will take off the header completely.
   For the rest of the space, that’s a little hard to say without seeing it. Use
   your browser’s element inspector to find the selector for that area and to find
   out what rule is adding the space. Most likely, that’s the padding that gets 
   added to .tippy_body so to get rid of it you would do .tippy_body { padding: 
   0; }
 *  Thread Starter [El Sledgo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/el-sledgo/)
 * (@el-sledgo)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spacing-issue-7/#post-3973043)
 * Thanks Chris, yes, I’m using header=”off” shortcode. The screenshot I linked 
   to above does show the big white space above and below the text.
 *     ```
       .tippy_body {
       padding: 0;
       }
       ```
   
 * Unfortunately, that didn’t do a thing to the white spacing.
 * I’m using the Enfold theme, and I think there are some theme-framework overrides
   kicking in. Apparently the Avia framework is quite aggressive when it comes to
   styling control.
 * (btw, the links to your homepage from within the plugin settings and other Google
   searches are coming up with a 404.)
 *  Plugin Author [Chris Roberts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/columcille/)
 * (@columcille)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spacing-issue-7/#post-3973053)
 * Thanks for the word on my site, I recently moved hosts and forgot to refresh 
   the permalinks. Working now.
 * On the styling, have you used an element inspector, something like the inspector
   in Chrome Developer Tools? Very helpful when tracking down what is controlling
   the styling in a particular part of a site. Using the inspector you should be
   able to fairly quickly determine what’s putting in the space and how to get rid
   of it.
 *  Thread Starter [El Sledgo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/el-sledgo/)
 * (@el-sledgo)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spacing-issue-7/#post-3973066)
 * Hi Chris, yes, using the built-in one in Chrome has been a great help for a newbie
   like me.
 * I’ll have to increase the dwell time of the popup because when it fades I lose
   the ability to inspect the associated code lines.
 *  Thread Starter [El Sledgo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/el-sledgo/)
 * (@el-sledgo)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spacing-issue-7/#post-3973130)
 * OK, the theme did have a lot of padding at the top and bottom of content.
 *     ```
       .tippy_body p {
       	margin-bottom: -37px;
       	margin-top: -36px;
       	line-height:1.4em;
       }
       ```
   
 * Did the trick.

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## Tags

 * [border](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/border/)
 * [gap](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gap/)
 * [padding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/padding/)
 * [spacing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/spacing/)

 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [El Sledgo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/el-sledgo/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spacing-issue-7/#post-3973130)
 * Status: resolved