Title: Sidebar Subscribe Form – Cannot Reduce Padding
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Sidebar Subscribe Form – Cannot Reduce Padding

 *  [katie-autoimmunemom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katie-autoimmunemom/)
 * (@katie-autoimmunemom)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-subscribe-form-cannot-reduce-padding/)
 * No matter what I do, I cannot seem to affect the look of the sidebar MailChimp
   list subscribe plugin. Here’s the code I’ve tried to manipulate in the stylesheet
   to no avail. Please help – I don’t know what I am doing wrong.
 * Here’s the site: [http://www.autoimmunemom.com/](http://www.autoimmunemom.com/)
 * Here’s the code:
    .sidebar #mc_signup { padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;}
 * .sidebar #mc_subheader {
    padding-bottom: 0px; }
 * .sidebar .mc_merge_var input {
    width: 30px; }
 * .sidebar .mc_signup_submit input[type=”submit”] {
    margin-left: 40px; width: 
   30%; }
 * .sidebar .mc_merge_var {
    margin-top: -10px; }
 * Thank you for any advice. I’ll be eternally grateful as I’ve spent a good while
   reading other posts on the topic and making css changes and it still looks the
   same. Ack!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp/)

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 *  [mc_kath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mc_kath/)
 * (@mc_kath)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-subscribe-form-cannot-reduce-padding/#post-6158355)
 * Hi there katie-autoimmunemom,
 * To manage the styles for the plugin if you’re using the widget would be within
   the code of the `mailchimp_widget.php` file directly. In this file there will
   be a <style> section which is added with the form any time the widget is added
   to the page.
 * There are a couple of past support threads where the user was wanting to change
   CSS in this way, perhaps one of these will be helpful for you:
 * – [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-style-border-radius?replies=4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-style-border-radius?replies=4)
   –
   [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-put-subscribe-form-into-a-page-not-a-sidebar?replies=7#post-6414990](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-put-subscribe-form-into-a-page-not-a-sidebar?replies=7#post-6414990)(
   editing mc_help response message styles) – [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/place-field-name-inside-the-field?replies=9#post-6246648](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/place-field-name-inside-the-field?replies=9#post-6246648)(
   editing margins post)
 * Let me know if I can be of any further assistance in troubleshooting.
 * -Kath

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 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-subscribe-form-cannot-reduce-padding/#post-6158355)
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