diff --git a/client/styles/components/_sidebar.scss b/client/styles/components/_sidebar.scss
index 1ff504af..86efd929 100644
--- a/client/styles/components/_sidebar.scss
+++ b/client/styles/components/_sidebar.scss
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 }
 
 .sidebar__file-item {
-  height: #{20 / $base-font-size}rem;
+  // height: #{20 / $base-font-size}rem;
   font-size: #{12 / $base-font-size}rem;
   cursor: pointer;
   position: relative;
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@
   }
 }
 
+.sidebar__file-item--folder {
+  z-index: 1;
+}
+
 // to indent each row in the file tree
 // not sure how to do this in a better way
 // it won't work if the file tree is too nested