Title: less padding between header and text
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# less padding between header and text

 *  [paal69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paal69/)
 * (@paal69)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-padding-between-header-and-text/)
 * hi
    can someone help me find in the css file where i have to reduce the padding
   to be smaller between the header and my text. [http://www.paal69.nl/wordpress/](http://www.paal69.nl/wordpress/)
   using child theme of twenty eleven
 * thanks

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 *  [Drew Jaynes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewapicture/)
 * (@drewapicture)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-padding-between-header-and-text/#post-2450312)
 * I paal69,
 * If you mean between your navigation menu and the text you’ll want to edit the
   top padding value in your #main container.
 *  [elseloop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elseloop/)
 * (@elseloop)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-padding-between-header-and-text/#post-2450314)
 * On line 755 of style.css, there’s a declaration for:
 * `.entry-content, .entry-summary { padding: 1.625em 0 0; }`
 * The first number is the `padding-top` value. Lowering that will lessen the padding
   between the post title and content (`.entry-content`). I’m guessing `.entry-summary`
   is used for displaying excerpts on the homepage, so you may want to separate 
   those selectors onto their own lines if you don’t want to affect that as well.
 * (You can easily find these values and make changes live on the page using the
   developer tools in Safari and Chrome or using Firebug in Firefox.)
 *  Thread Starter [paal69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paal69/)
 * (@paal69)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-padding-between-header-and-text/#post-2450327)
 * @ elseloop i am using a child theme so i do not see immediate changes with firebug
 *  Thread Starter [paal69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paal69/)
 * (@paal69)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-padding-between-header-and-text/#post-2450328)
 * Hi Drew
    where is the css sheet is the #main container?
 *  Thread Starter [paal69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paal69/)
 * (@paal69)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-padding-between-header-and-text/#post-2450329)
 * Hi Drew
 * Sorry where **in** the css sheet is the #main container?
 *  Thread Starter [paal69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paal69/)
 * (@paal69)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-padding-between-header-and-text/#post-2450333)
 * oh yeah and to be more clear I want to remove padding between the main top nav
   bar and the text (the black part is too big under nav bar)
 * thanks
 *  Thread Starter [paal69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paal69/)
 * (@paal69)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-padding-between-header-and-text/#post-2450508)
 * thanks elseloop
    i cannot see this using firebug as i am using my child theme
   or can i set up firebug in other way?

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