Title: Page alignment issue
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Page alignment issue

 *  [sneakyburt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seanrmccue/)
 * (@seanrmccue)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-alignment-issue/)
 * So I made one additional change to my css within the Appearance -> Styling Options
   page on my Dashboard. I added a h1 {#CCC} to the “Custom CSS” field, and it wrecked
   the layout of my homepage! I immediately removed the addition, and the page is
   still laid out incorrectly. Would really appreciate if someone could tell me 
   what happened, or what I am doing wrong. Link here: [http://s414228647.onlinehome.us/](http://s414228647.onlinehome.us/)
 * Thanks,
    Sean

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 *  [Good Guy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mytaxsitecouk/)
 * (@mytaxsitecouk)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-alignment-issue/#post-3125832)
 * Have you done any other changes to the theme? If not why not download the theme
   again and then install it over the current theme and it would overwrite the current
   theme.
 * after doing this, you need to create a child theme and make it active so that
   all your changes are in the child theme and remain there. You don’t have to change
   anything in the core files. It is a very bad practice and sooner everybody learns
   this the better it would be for the WP community.
 * Read about child theme here:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * Good luck.
 *  Thread Starter [sneakyburt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seanrmccue/)
 * (@seanrmccue)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-alignment-issue/#post-3125836)
 * Yes, unfortunately this theme has been heavily modified. If I were to reset, 
   a whole lot of work would be lost. I literally made one insignificant change 
   within the “Custom CSS” field (as stated above), and all hell broke loose. Can
   you identify the problem? Has something been modified in my CSS that I have not
   accounted for? I assumed simply deleting the one change that I made would revert
   back to the previous layout. Was I wrong in using the “Custom CSS” field?
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-alignment-issue/#post-3125858)
 * You have javascript in your style.css file — did you add that? That does not 
   work — javascript can’t go there. See if removing that fixes the problem.
 * You also have a bunch of mark-up errors on the page — which may also be causing
   problems:
 * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fs414228647.onlinehome.us%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fs414228647.onlinehome.us%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0)
 *  Thread Starter [sneakyburt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seanrmccue/)
 * (@seanrmccue)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-alignment-issue/#post-3125923)
 * WPyogi,
 * I am but a young grasshopper to your wisdom. Thanks very much. So simple, yet
   that did the trick. Derp! You’re the man.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-alignment-issue/#post-3125924)
 * Woman 🙂 ! And you’re welcome.
 *  Thread Starter [sneakyburt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seanrmccue/)
 * (@seanrmccue)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-alignment-issue/#post-3125937)
 * Ah! Duly noted. 🙂

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 * [page alignment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/page-alignment/)

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 * Last reply from: [sneakyburt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seanrmccue/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-alignment-issue/#post-3125937)
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