Title: decrease height of nav menu
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# decrease height of nav menu

 *  [pintsizepilot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pintsizepilot/)
 * (@pintsizepilot)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-height-of-nav-menu/)
 * Can someone tell me how to decrease the height of my nav menu? It is just taking
   up too much space.
 * P.S. I will be editing the code as opposed to creating a child theme (don’t know
   how to create CT’s yet…will learn soon). For the moment, however, I have kept
   a copy of the original code so I can go back to it if necessary.

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-height-of-nav-menu/#post-3857246)
 * You can use a Custom CSS plugin if you don’t want to make a child theme – custom
   CSS manager is a good one. Then you need to post a link to your site.
 * Do NOT, in any case, modify theme files – sorry that’s just not smart at all.
 *  Thread Starter [pintsizepilot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pintsizepilot/)
 * (@pintsizepilot)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-height-of-nav-menu/#post-3857250)
 * Okay, okay……I will. I know it wrong to modify the theme files 🙂
 * Thanks.
 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-height-of-nav-menu/#post-3857276)
 * **Child themes**
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * A blank (starter) child theme for any theme only require 2 things here
    - 1 folder with a name like `twentytwelve-child`
    - 1 text file saved as `style.css` in that folder, containing this comment block
      at the top
 *     ```
       /*
       Theme Name: Twenty Twelve Child
       Template: twentytwelve
       */
   
       @import url("../twentytwelve/style.css");
   
       /*===== Begin editing below this ===== */
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-height-of-nav-menu/#post-3857276)
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