Title: Padding/Margin Between header and Page Content
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Padding/Margin Between header and Page Content

 *  [Contraption](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contraption/)
 * (@contraption)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paddingmargin-between-header-and-page-content/)
 * I would like to decrease the size of the space between the header and the content
   below it on [http://www.gizmostash.com](http://www.gizmostash.com) it is driving
   me nuts.
 * Currently it seems overly large on the home page, and all of the other pages.
   I a running wordpress 3.2.1 and I have found another thread with instructions
   on some line of text to edit in style.css, however I could not find any related
   text in my file.
    The thread was: [http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/edit-space-between-title-and-header-with-css](http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/edit-space-between-title-and-header-with-css)
   Is there an easy way to reduce this space? Can anyone quote me the text which
   has the corect padding or margin to edit? All help would be appreciated

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paddingmargin-between-header-and-page-content/#post-2457690)
 * Modify in the Graphene stylesheet:
 *     ```
       #content {
       	background: #e3e3e3;
       	padding-top: 21px;
       	padding-bottom: 20px;
       }
       ```
   
 * so that padding-top is a smaller number or 0 like this:
 *     ```
       #content {
       	background: #e3e3e3;
       	padding-top: 1px;
       	padding-bottom: 20px;
       }
       ```
   
 * You could also mod:
 *     ```
       .menu-bottom-shadow{
       	background: url(images/sprite_h.png) left top repeat-x #eee;
       	height: 3px;
       	width: 100%;
       }
       ```
   
 * and remove the background image and set height to 1px:
 *     ```
       .menu-bottom-shadow{
       	height: 1px;
       	width: 100%;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Contraption](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contraption/)
 * (@contraption)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paddingmargin-between-header-and-page-content/#post-2457699)
 * Hey, thanks for the help, but when I did that all it did was remove the grey 
   box under the header, however the space still remains and is still far too large.
   Any Suggestions?
 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paddingmargin-between-header-and-page-content/#post-2457708)
 * Sure, I noticed that also, but was not sure if in some content the space was 
   needed?
 * change:
 *     ```
       .post {
       < ====lines removed here for clarity, leave above lines =====>
       	padding: 25px 15px 20px 70px;  <===change 25px to be less
       	position: relative;
       	width: 875px;
       ```
   
 * Review this carefully on any multi-post pages also.
 *  Thread Starter [Contraption](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contraption/)
 * (@contraption)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paddingmargin-between-header-and-page-content/#post-2457933)
 * Hey,
    Cheers, its definately improved it, but still could ideally be a bit smaller

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 * [content](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/content/)
 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [margin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/margin/)
 * [padding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/padding/)
 * [page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/page/)
 * [post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post/)
 * [space](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/space/)

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 * Last reply from: [Contraption](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contraption/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paddingmargin-between-header-and-page-content/#post-2457933)
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