# Some feedback on new CSS border radius and padding
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-feedback-on-new-css-border-radius-and-padding/367544
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [May 25, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-feedback-on-new-css-border-radius-and-padding/367544 "2025-05-25T16:17:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@j127](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j127)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-feedback-on-new-css-border-radius-and-padding/367544/1 "2025-05-25T16:17:48Z")
I just updated Discourse to the latest version and there are some issues with new CSS border rounding, especially on sites with dark headers.
Here’s a screenshot from a dark header where the pieces don’t fit together cleanly any more:
Here it is on this forum with a red CSS border added to make it clearer:
Here’s what it looks like on a forum that wasn’t updated yet — I think this looks much better with less rounding and with the old padding (and no rounding where a corner touches a straight line).
I think the less rounded borders looked better overall. Here’s another example:
Here’s the old version for comparison (looks better in my opinion, though the outer corners might look better with a 2px radius):
Just some suggestions.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-feedback-on-new-css-border-radius-and-padding/367544/2 "2025-05-26T01:36:19Z")
Thanks for raising this, alerted the design team.
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### Author:  [@jordan.vidrine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan.vidrine)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-feedback-on-new-css-border-radius-and-padding/367544/4 "2025-05-30T13:17:40Z")
Some of this has been updated since your post.
We’ve added a bit of separation to the sidebar items:
Our notification panel has had its padding removed. This is a direction our design team feels is better than having padding around all of the elements.
This corner should not have rounding applied to it. Will address, thanks for reporting.
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### Author:  [@j127](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j127)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-feedback-on-new-css-border-radius-and-padding/367544/5 "2025-05-30T15:46:16Z")
This is just some feedback, because it should be easy enough for me to change it on my own forums:
The lack of padding there is fine. It might just be me, but every time I click the menu, my brain says, “something doesn’t look right.” I think it’s more the border radius than the padding, because it looks like the box surrounding the user icon has a `4px` radius, but the menu has `2 * 4px` radius. The buttons in the sidebar are also 4px. I think it would look better if the borders of the menu are 4px so that it’s aligned with the rest of the page.
(Your screenshots looks like everything might be `8px`, but I think it looks too rounded. Unless I’m mistaken, when I log out I see `8px` radius but when I’m logged in I see `4px`. I’ve tried in a few browsers.)
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**Edit:** we might be seeing different things. It isn’t a big problem, because I can override the variable, but it’s that top left corner that looks off to me whenever I click it on my sites. Maybe the bigger rounding puts the edge too close to the text, which is why I mentioned the padding in my previous comment.
