I've tried already a lot if design options. I resized the portlet, surrounded my menu with a <h:panelGrid, with <a4j:outputPanel, set the margin of my top element to 50px, so I have a huge border with nothing not even the porttle-borders, ... I will give it another try but I don't know If I can find the solution, nevertheless, thx for the answer (guessed some others have these problems) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4265400#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...