No, the issue was there when i first installed flarum... so it could be one of my extensions doing something funny here., no custom css.
php flarum info result:
Loaded extensions: Core, bcmath, calendar, ctype, date, filter, hash, iconv, json, SPL, pcre, readline, Reflection, session, standard, mysqlnd, tokenizer, zip, zlib, libxml, dom, PDO, bz2, SimpleXML, xml, wddx, xmlreader, xmlwriter, openssl, curl, fileinfo, gd, gettext, mbstring, exif, mysqli, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, Phar, ftp
EXT flarum-approval v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-bbcode v0.1.0-beta.5
EXT zaptech-cookie-consent 0.1.0-beta3
EXT flarum-emoji v0.1.0-beta.6
EXT flarum-english v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT issyrocks12-filter 1.2.2
EXT flagrow-fonts 0.1.2
EXT flagrow-terms 0.2.3
EXT flagrow-upload 0.6.0
EXT flarum-flags v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT sijad-recaptcha 0.0.2
EXT flarum-likes v0.1.0-beta.6
EXT flarum-lock v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-markdown v0.1.0-beta.5
EXT flarum-mentions v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT sijad-pages 0.1.0-beta.3
EXT michaelbelgium-profile-views v0.1.0-beta-7-2
EXT reflar-gamification 3.0.11
EXT reflar-nightmode 0.1.6
EXT reflar-uncache 0.1.0-beta.3
EXT flarum-sticky v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-subscriptions v0.1.0-beta.6
EXT flarum-suspend v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-tags v0.1.0-beta.8