diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.css b/gitweb/gitweb.css
index 17c60e4cb4..446a1c333b 100644
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.css
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.css
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ div.title, a.title {
 	color: #000000;
 }
 
+div.readme {
+	padding: 8px;
+}
+
 a.title:hover {
 	background-color: #d9d8d1;
 }
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 3d532dc7d7..491a3f41d2 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -3912,8 +3912,10 @@ sub git_summary {
 
 	if (-s "$projectroot/$project/README.html") {
 		if (open my $fd, "$projectroot/$project/README.html") {
-			print "<div class=\"title\">readme</div>\n";
+			print "<div class=\"title\">readme</div>\n" .
+			      "<div class=\"readme\">\n";
 			print $_ while (<$fd>);
+			print "\n</div>\n"; # class="readme"
 			close $fd;
 		}
 	}