Title: Started to add extra padding
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Started to add extra padding

 *  Resolved [revlow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/revlow/)
 * (@revlow)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/started-to-add-extra-padding/)
 * Hi,
 * For some reason in the past few days, the plugin has started adding extra padding
   above the social icons in the header. I haven’t changed anything on the menu,
   and it occurs no matter how many social icons I use… even one will do it.
 * I haven’t done any updates lately to the theme or plugins. I did go through the
   plugins one by one to see if there was a conflict. Doesn’t seem to be. Deactivating
   them didn’t change the header height. The only one that put the header back to
   the correct height was when I deactivated Simple Social Icons.
 * I also tested this in a dev subdomain — it’s behaving the same way. It’s added
   approx 58 px in height to the header. I even tried making the icons smaller —
   no change. It had definitely not acted this way before.
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 * Here is our site [http://namelink.com](http://namelink.com/)
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-social-icons/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-social-icons/)

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 *  Thread Starter [revlow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/revlow/)
 * (@revlow)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/started-to-add-extra-padding/#post-6321508)
 * Also, I checked the css file for this plugin and nothing has changed since it
   was first installed in May. I compared it to the backup file.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Nick C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modernnerd/)
 * (@modernnerd)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/started-to-add-extra-padding/#post-6321619)
 * Hi, revlow!
 * There’s some padding being applied to that widget area in your “Spacious” theme’s
   stylesheet on line 537:
 *     ```
       #header-right-section .widget {
         text-align: right;
         padding-top: 10px;
       }
       ```
   
 * There’s no other padding being applied above the icons that I could see, though.
   Perhaps you could edit the theme to remove it if you wish?
 *  Thread Starter [revlow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/revlow/)
 * (@revlow)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/started-to-add-extra-padding/#post-6321627)
 * Hi Nick,
 * Thanks! I tried that and it didn’t change anything. But the problem appears to
   be the monitor I’m using. My laptop crashed a few days ago and I’m on an old 
   computer with a 1280 x 1024 resolution. I looked at it this morning on other 
   computers, however, and it’s fine. It also corrects itself when I lower the browser
   magnification on this computer to 90%.
 * Scary to think this would be doing it. Yes, it’s the old aspect ratio, but I’m
   sure some people still use it. Otherwise the site’s been nicely responsive.
 * Thanks so much Nick. Nice to know there’s someone like you to help. 🙂
    r.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Nick C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modernnerd/)
 * (@modernnerd)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/started-to-add-extra-padding/#post-6321735)
 * Thanks for the update, revlow, and well done for tracking the issue down to your
   screen resolution.
 * If I can help with anything else related to the plugin, feel free to open a new
   thread any time. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [revlow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/revlow/)
 * (@revlow)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/started-to-add-extra-padding/#post-6321738)
 * Thanks again Nick. I’ll mark this as resolved unless you say otherwise. (Is it
   good to mark something as resolved if the answer didn’t have anything to do with
   the original Q?)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Nick C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modernnerd/)
 * (@modernnerd)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/started-to-add-extra-padding/#post-6321740)
 * Sure – feel free to mark this resolved if it requires no further action. Thanks
   for checking in!
 *  Thread Starter [revlow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/revlow/)
 * (@revlow)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/started-to-add-extra-padding/#post-6321741)
 * Thanks. Will do. 🙂

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