diff --git a/frontend/src/components/AppShell.vue b/frontend/src/components/AppShell.vue
index a583526..2123194 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/AppShell.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/AppShell.vue
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ const route = useRoute()
 <style scoped>
 .fc-content {
   min-height: 100vh;
-  /* Push initial viewport content below the sticky TopNav. Without
-     this, some views' first rows / form fields / table headers can
-     end up obscured by the navbar (depending on parent overflow
-     context interacting with position: sticky). Scrolled-down content
-     still slides under the nav — the gradient-fade design is intact. */
-  padding-top: 64px;
+  /* NO padding-top: the TopNav is position:sticky, so it already reserves its
+     own space in the v-app flex column — content flows directly below it. The
+     old 64px padding-top was a leftover from a FIXED navbar and double-counted
+     that space, leaving a large empty band at the top of EVERY view (and pushing
+     the full-height calc(100vh - 64px) views down so they overflowed). Removed
+     2026-07-13. Scrolled content still slides under the sticky nav as before. */
 }
 </style>