Saturday, November 3, 2012

How to Remove the White Space Above the Header (Blogger Template)?



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I've recently removed the white space above the header of my other Blogger blog, i-Share, and placed an expanding Nuffnang ads in it. The Nuffnang ad used to float in that area with so much gap between it and the header. In times that the ad is in minimized mode, it shouldn't be eating that space and the header should be touching the URL bar of the browser thus, pulling more of the blog contents of the above the fold. 

The gaps usually appears after removing the Blogger navigation bar.

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How to Remove the White Gap?
This is applicable for Blogger users.


1. Go to your Blogger account.
2. Select the blog you want to remove the gaps. Go to its Template, then Edit HTML, select Proceed, and tick the Expand Widget Template.
3. Press Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C in your keyboard. This will copy the codes of your template.
4. Open Notepad in your desktop and paste the codes there. This will serve as your back-up for your codes in case the editing will fail (but it usually don't).
5. Open another Notepad and paste the codes again. This is where you'll edit the your template codes.
6. Search for #outer-wrapper in your codes. You can do this by pressing Ctrl+F and pasting #outer-wrapper  in the Find what bar. If it says "Cannot Find #outer-wrapper", press OK and choose the direction to UP.
7. Once you locate it, look for the code margin-top: 20px below it and edit it to -40px. The value will depend on your liking, just do a trial and error to see what suits you best. Mine is like this:
#outer-wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;   /* to make the template lay in the screen center */
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin-top: -40px;
 8. Copy-Paste the code from your Notepad to the Blogger Template window. Preview it and if what you are seeing is OK already, then hit Save Template. :)

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3 comments:

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  2. there is no "expand widget template" in my blogger html template editor

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    1. Well, it's ok. You can just skip the expand widget template step and proceed with the next. It is because blogger had updated their interface.

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