My margins and padding and theme was all good until I published it. Then after adding a couple of areas to the home page all my margins have disappeared and the sections are all on top of each other. how can I add a global setting to ensure there is slight padding between each section (padding needed is between top and bottom of each section not sides).
If you can let me know that would be great.
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Thank you for your reply. the shop is fablittlebag.com.au
As you can see on the home page, the sections are sitting on top of one another with no padding. Which was not the case when we went live, so not sure what happened. Any help would be great!
Hi @FabShop
You can try follow this path:
Themes => edit code => asset => theme.css
and add this code to bottom of the file theme.css
.template-index .main-content {
padding-top: 0!Important;
}