Title: css header help
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# css header help

 *  [BJD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bjd/)
 * (@bjd)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-header-help-1/)
 * Hello,
 *  I’m not really at all adept at css and I’m having a problem with my main menu
   not going the full width of my content area and you can tell that by the fact
   that my logo fills up the width of the content area and my main menu falls just
   short of the length of my logo. I’ve played around content width area, nav main
   menu padding and font sizes in the css. No matter what I do I can’t get it right
   and it’s really affecting the display on mobile version of the site. Could someone
   please look both at my site [http://www.corrosiveradio.com](http://www.corrosiveradio.com)
   and the css code for my site and tell me what’s wrong.
 * _[ Moderator note: CSS redacted, just post a link to your stylesheet instead.]_

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 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-header-help-1/#post-4390235)
 * Wow, you really didn’t have to paste in the entire contents of your CSS file,
   we can take a look at it as long as you provide a link to your site. If you really
   have to show your code, use a [pastebin](http://pastebin.com/) instead.
 * The problem is that you have a syntax error here:
 *     ```
       /*----------------------------------------------
          Navigation Menus
       -----------------------------------------------*/
       #nav-main {
       	background-color:#FF0000;
       	border-bottom: 0px solid #fff;
       	float: left;
       	width: 100%
       	padding-left: 13px;
       	z-index: 30;
       }
       ```
   
 * The width property is missing a semicolon after the **100%** value, that’s why
   the menu isn’t extending all the way across, because the browser is trying to
   interpret the padding-left as part of the value for width. Add a semicolon after
   the **100%** and your menu will be OK.
 * By the way, instead of modify the theme files directly, it is suggested that 
   you create a [child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) if your theme
   doesn’t support custom CSS. Otherwise your changes are going to be lost the next
   time your theme is updated (don’t end up like [this person](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/totally-screwed-up-things?replies=2).
 *  Thread Starter [BJD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bjd/)
 * (@bjd)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-header-help-1/#post-4390281)
 * THANK YOU!!!!!! I knew it had to be something like that. And sorry about pasting
   the whole, it’s just that I had become so uncertain about the where the problem
   could really be .
 * THANK YOU AGAIN!!

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-header-help-1/#post-4390281)
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