Changing the "white space" on both sides of the story post text

[buttercup]

I have been trying to change the amount of white space that appears between the "submitted by" section and the story/post text... also between the story and the "post details below text," but I can't seem to make it change at all. I've looked at the margins, padding, and the wrappers. I've experimented by changing the ones that would seem to have an impact...but to no avail. Does anyne know where I can make this change?

Also, when the MB template is installed does the pligg instance use any of the definitions in css/style.css?

[DuckFat]

My advice is to use FireFox along with the "Web Developer" extension. You can use the "Edit CSS" feature and then just poke around your CSS file(s) without making any permanent changes. Once you find the margin or padding statement that controls your white space then you can make the change permanent by uploading a new CSS file.

This extension is the best thing I've ever found for developers. You can use the "view style information" option and simply click on ANY element on your page and it'll show you all the CSS controlling that element. The Outline feature is great too if you have formatting problems. I can't give this extension a higher recommendation.

[buttercup]

well, I'm using Dreamweaver, which "sounds" like it does the same thing. My problem is that none of the things I've *thought* were right, are! But... the Firefox extension sound smoer visual and, since you rate it highly, I will try it and see if it helps. I'll post the results here. Thanks for the tip.

[buttercup]

wow, that is an amazing tool. I can't believe I haven't installed this before. thanks for the pointer.

I still can't make the changes work though... I checked news-body-text and ls_content_1 and a million other things but....no go. Getting too frustrated. But, the extension did help me find a bumch of other stuff to fix, so that is positive!

Thanks again!