Title: Margin under the chat
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Margin under the chat

 *  Resolved [Georgio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/georgio-1/)
 * (@georgio-1)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-under-the-chat/)
 * Hi [@meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * Under the chat, sometimes there is margin and sometimes not.
    Compare the two
   images:
 * [http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=818016buoymargin.png](http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=818016buoymargin.png)
   
   and [http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=831368buoynomargin.png](http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=831368buoynomargin.png)
 * I cannot determine the conditions of appearance. I thing that without margin 
   at all it’s a little annoying. I tried to apply css without success.
 * Any idea how we can have some margin permanently ?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/buoy/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/buoy/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Georgio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/georgio-1/)
 * (@georgio-1)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-under-the-chat/#post-7490665)
 * Ok, I found it, the screenshot with the margin is from my admin account which
   has many entries in the dashboard menu and so the background becomes long and
   continues under the chat. User dashboards have only a few entries and the chat
   covers all the background.
 *  Plugin Author [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * (@meitar)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-under-the-chat/#post-7490773)
 * Glad you worked this out on your own. And, yes, the WordPress menu system forces
   the page to grow downwards, elongating the background. Buoy itself takes care
   to make its built-in chat always appear to be at most as tall as the _window_,
   so you don’t have to scroll the page to access the chat message input bar.
 *  Thread Starter [Georgio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/georgio-1/)
 * (@georgio-1)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-under-the-chat/#post-7490775)
 * I just added a line in /buoy/css/alerts.css in the block #comments-chat
 * `margin-bottom: 5%;`
 *  Plugin Author [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * (@meitar)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-under-the-chat/#post-7490778)
 * > I just added a line in `/buoy/css/alerts.css` in the block `#comments-chat`
 * What for?
 *  Thread Starter [Georgio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/georgio-1/)
 * (@georgio-1)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-under-the-chat/#post-7490801)
 * While “no-margin” is good for smartphones, it can become annoying with desktop/
   laptops when you have the taskbar of your operating system in the bottom of the
   screen. You have to be careful all the time, because you risk to click on an 
   icon of the taskbar instead of the Send button. And for a better look as well.
   I dont like this thing at all:
    [http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=831368buoynomargin.png](http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=831368buoynomargin.png)
 * I tested with the Customizer of the theme to see how it looks with 5% margin 
   on a smartphone and I see I lose some space; so I ajusted it to 2% and it is 
   OK now.
 * With some other customizations (margin left/right, background color etc) it looks
   like this:
    [http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=852234buoycss.png](http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=852234buoycss.png)

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 * Last reply from: [Georgio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/georgio-1/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-under-the-chat/#post-7490801)
 * Status: resolved