# Spacing to between of menu icons & text doesn't use CSS
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/spacing-to-between-of-menu-icons-text-doesnt-use-css/19789
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [08.Сентябрь.2014 16:49:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spacing-to-between-of-menu-icons-text-doesnt-use-css/19789 "2014-09-08T16:49:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [08.Сентябрь.2014 16:49:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spacing-to-between-of-menu-icons-text-doesnt-use-css/19789/1 "2014-09-08T16:49:06Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Spacing between icon and text](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spacing-between-icon-and-text/19746/2):
> [@Spacing between icon and text](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spacing-between-icon-and-text/19746/2):
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> Good catch, adding space back in there.
This seems to have been a “real” space character ( ) added and not CSS padding/margin to the right of the icon element. As a result, it can break some CSS styling that underlines links on hover (e.g., for WCAG compliance).
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [08.Сентябрь.2014 16:51:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spacing-to-between-of-menu-icons-text-doesnt-use-css/19789/2 "2014-09-08T16:51:39Z")
Just a reminder of the definition of bug, as defined in the bug category:
> prevents normal / typical use of Discourse
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [08.Сентябрь.2014 17:10:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spacing-to-between-of-menu-icons-text-doesnt-use-css/19789/3 "2014-09-08T17:10:26Z")
This (although rather minor) is just as much as a bug as the topic which preceded it:
> [@Spacing between icon and text](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spacing-between-icon-and-text/19746):
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> Noticed this little css issue after upgrading. Spacing between icons and text is gone. [image]
1. CSS, specifically the `margin` property, is the W3C specification on how to handle spacing, rather than by inserting lots of extra spaces within a tag. (Unless living in the 1990s.) 😄
2. This styling error error effects all Discourse users, even if not visible.
3. Also, using the CSS styling feature is a normal & typical use of Discourse, in case you were implying somehow this is not a valid bug simply because I switched on the lights to make it easier to see the error. 💡
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [08.Сентябрь.2014 17:11:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spacing-to-between-of-menu-icons-text-doesnt-use-css/19789/4 "2014-09-08T17:11:26Z")
You’re right, I’ll change that one to feature as well.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [04.Декабрь.2025 11:32:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spacing-to-between-of-menu-icons-text-doesnt-use-css/19789/5 "2025-12-04T11:32:23Z")