Title: Adding Padding Within the Container
Last modified: November 14, 2020

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# Adding Padding Within the Container

 *  [lcokolat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcokolat/)
 * (@lcokolat)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-padding-within-the-container/)
 * I’m trying to figure out how I can add a little bit of padding (white area) on
   the right-hand side of the page. Right now I’m only using a left-hand sidebar
   and content. I looked under “Container” and tried to increase the content padding
   for the right side but it doesn’t do anything. I don’t see any visible change.
   What am I doing wrong? It would be nice if I could get about the same amount 
   of white space that’s currently showing between the left-hand sidebar and the
   content.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fadding-padding-within-the-container%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Leo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leohsiang/)
 * (@leohsiang)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-padding-within-the-container/#post-13661486)
 * Hi there,
 * Does this help?
    [https://docs.generatepress.com/article/content-padding/#content-padding-not-working](https://docs.generatepress.com/article/content-padding/#content-padding-not-working)
 * Let me know 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [lcokolat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcokolat/)
 * (@lcokolat)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-padding-within-the-container/#post-13670314)
 * [@leohsiang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leohsiang/) , yes this has helped.
   I have a couple more questions:
 * – is there a recommended width for setting up a website? I’m asking mainly because
   of trying to consider the different size monitors and also being ADA compliant,
   etc. Right now we set the width to 1680 so that the site we’re building looks
   decent on larger monitors. Any recommendations?
 * – also the space outside the container appears grey on large monitors. Is there
   a way we can set this space to white?
 * Thanks so much for all your help.
 * Lora 🙂
 *  [Leo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leohsiang/)
 * (@leohsiang)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-padding-within-the-container/#post-13670695)
 * > is there a recommended width for setting up a website?
 * Not really – it’s more about personal preference.
 * > also the space outside the container appears grey on large monitors. Is there
   > a way we can set this space to white?
 * Try changing the body background color in Customizer > Colors.
 * Please open a new topic if have more questions.
 * Thanks 🙂

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