Title: Category Description Margins
Last modified: August 21, 2016

---

# Category Description Margins

 *  Resolved [velanche](https://wordpress.org/support/users/velanche/)
 * (@velanche)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-description-margins/)
 * Hi There:
    I wanted to line up the margin of the category description for some
   of my pages with the post excerpts. For instance, if you look here…
 * [http://www.velanche.com/category/playtime](http://www.velanche.com/category/playtime)
 * You can see that the left margin for the category description at the top is not
   flush with the post.
 * I was scouring through the child and parent CSS sheets, but no luck in finding
   the appropriate style to fix this. If I change the <p> style, it also affects
   the post styles too.
 * Hope you can point me in the right direction to get this sorted; thanks much!
   
   Velanche

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

 *  Theme Author [Robert Dall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdall/)
 * (@rdall)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-description-margins/#post-4349889)
 * Hi Velanche
 * First I would set up Custom CSS using [JetPack Plugin](http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/)
   or some similar plugin.
 * That way if you update the r2d2 theme you won’t lose your css changes.
 * Secondly I would add this to your custom css to help with the category description.
 *     ```
       .archive-title, .archive-meta {
           max-width: 918px;
           width: 100%;
       }
       ```
   
 * You can then change the max width to match your content.
 * Also if you looking for a tool to help with the css changes I really like [firebug](https://getfirebug.com/).
 * Cheers
 * RD
 *  Thread Starter [velanche](https://wordpress.org/support/users/velanche/)
 * (@velanche)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-description-margins/#post-4349890)
 * Thanks for the reply, Robert.
 * I have just installed Jetpack per your recommendtaion, but will deal with how
   to make use of the custom css, etc., later on.
 * Once that’s done, I’ll give your suggestion a try. Will get back to you.
 * All the best,
    V.
 *  Thread Starter [velanche](https://wordpress.org/support/users/velanche/)
 * (@velanche)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-description-margins/#post-4349921)
 * Hey RD:
    Thanks again; tried out your suggestion, and that seems to have done
   the trick! Now the archive paragraph is just about flush with the left side, 
   so looking good!
 * Last question that I have, and it has to do with the custom CSS. I have already
   added some custom CSS items to the style.css file in the theme. If I read you
   correctly, you are suggesting to take all of my custom styles to Jetpack so that
   when the theme gets updated, the custom styles won’t be overwritten. Is that 
   right?
 * Have a good one!
    V.
 *  Theme Author [Robert Dall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdall/)
 * (@rdall)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-description-margins/#post-4349922)
 * Yes you got it!
 * As long as you have jetpack installed it will preserve all of your changes regardless
   of how often I update the theme.
 * (Lets hope I don’t have to update the theme again and have found all the bugs)
 *  Thread Starter [velanche](https://wordpress.org/support/users/velanche/)
 * (@velanche)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-description-margins/#post-4349924)
 * Cool! Thanks again, sir!
    V.

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

The topic ‘Category Description Margins’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/r2d2/1.2/screenshot.png)
 * r2d2
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/r2d2/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/r2d2/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/r2d2/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/r2d2/reviews/)

## Tags

 * [category description](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category-description/)
 * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme/)
 * [margin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/margin/)
 * [twenty thirteen](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/twenty-thirteen/)

 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [velanche](https://wordpress.org/support/users/velanche/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-description-margins/#post-4349924)
 * Status: resolved