Title: help spotting simple CSS problem
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# help spotting simple CSS problem

 *  [jpt145](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpt145/)
 * (@jpt145)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-spotting-simple-css-problem/)
 * Hi guys,
 * I have a simple tabbed social media box on my website where the tabs are mis-
   aligned and cant figure out why… Im certain its a simple CSS edit:
 * [http://www.Jillysoc.com](http://www.jillysoc.com)
 * If you scroll down the homepage to the footer, there is a Social Media Feeds 
   Box under “Jilly’s Social Media” for Facebook Tab, Twitter Tab and Instagram 
   Tab. Clearly the Tabs are mis-aligned. The tabs are written in an unordered list
   structure… the first one is staggered higher than the other two…
 * I could use some help.
 * Thanks in advance
 * JT

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 *  [stephencottontail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephencottontail/)
 * (@stephencottontail)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-spotting-simple-css-problem/#post-7006793)
 * Your theme has some crazy-specific CSS that takes the top padding off the first
   tab. You could override it in your child theme:
 *     ```
       #footer-outer #footer-widgets .col ul li:first-child {
       	padding-top: 8px !important;
       }
   
       #footer-outer #footer-widgets .col ul li > a:first-child {
       	padding-top: 8px !important;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [jpt145](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpt145/)
 * (@jpt145)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-spotting-simple-css-problem/#post-7006795)
 * Yes! I noticed that in google inspector…. there was a ‘first-child’
 * I didnt design this WP site. The original developer disabled the themes built
   in footer WP GUI… and wrote his own child footer.php and left me no comments.
   So when my client asked me to modify the footer elements the entire thing broke
   and I was left studying someone else’s code line by line. After a while, I gave
   up because the client wants the footer done by WP Widgets so he can change the
   elements himself on the fly… but he loved that tab social media feed and I could
   not find, after extensive searching, a good tabbed social media feed that would
   integrate as a widget.
 * Thanks, It works !!!
 * Thanks a Million Steve!
 *  Thread Starter [jpt145](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpt145/)
 * (@jpt145)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-spotting-simple-css-problem/#post-7006796)
 * Last question….
 * In order to modify the entire social media feeds box to be the same HEIGHT as
   the other footer widget boxes, which element’s CSS do I modify?

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 * [CSS Fix](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css-fix/)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-spotting-simple-css-problem/#post-7006796)
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