Title: Make header thinner
Last modified: August 9, 2021

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# Make header thinner

 *  Resolved [gastan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gastan/)
 * (@gastan)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-header-thinner/)
 * How is it possible to make header thinner. It is taking up too much space on 
   desktop.
    Looks better on phone. There is just too much empty-blank space. thx
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Theme Author [Anders Norén](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anlino/)
 * (@anlino)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-header-thinner/#post-14807091)
 * Hi [@gastan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gastan/),
 * If you mean the vertical spacing around the header, go to Appearance → Customize
   → Additional CSS (the menu labels might be different in your language) and add
   the code below:
 * `@media ( min-width: 700px ) { #site-header { margin-bottom: 4rem; } }`
 * Adjust the 4rem value to your liking. Let me know if that does it.
 * — Anders
 *  Thread Starter [gastan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gastan/)
 * (@gastan)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-header-thinner/#post-14839200)
 * thx, it worked some, but I could not go below 1em (like 0.4em did not see to 
   make difference)
 *  Theme Author [Anders Norén](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anlino/)
 * (@anlino)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-header-thinner/#post-14841706)
 * [@gastan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gastan/) It has a bottom margin
   of 5 pixels right now, so it doesn’t go much lower than that. You can just set
   it to zero, though.

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