diff --git a/src/lembas/web/static/css/admin.css b/src/lembas/web/static/css/admin.css
index 9b48b21..2d77d7e 100644
--- a/src/lembas/web/static/css/admin.css
+++ b/src/lembas/web/static/css/admin.css
@@ -72,23 +72,64 @@
 
 .tabs__panel { display: none; }
 
-/* Each radio activates its own label and its own panel. Written out because
-   CSS has no way to derive one from the other. */
-#tab-account:checked ~ label[for="tab-account"],
-#tab-models:checked ~ label[for="tab-models"],
-#tab-appearance:checked ~ label[for="tab-appearance"],
-#tab-security:checked ~ label[for="tab-security"] {
+/* The active tab's label. Each radio is immediately followed by its own label,
+   so this needs to know nothing about how many tabs there are or what they are
+   called. */
+.tabs__bar input:checked + .tabs__tab {
   color: var(--ink);
   border-bottom-color: var(--accent);
 }
-.tabs__bar:has(#tab-account:checked) ~ .tabs__body [data-tab="tab-account"],
-.tabs__bar:has(#tab-models:checked) ~ .tabs__body [data-tab="tab-models"],
-.tabs__bar:has(#tab-appearance:checked) ~ .tabs__body [data-tab="tab-appearance"],
-.tabs__bar:has(#tab-security:checked) ~ .tabs__body [data-tab="tab-security"] {
+
+/*
+  The active panel, matched by position.
+
+  CSS cannot compare a radio's id with a panel's data-tab, so this used to name
+  every tab twice -- and a tab added without also adding its two rules here
+  rendered a label that selected nothing. That is not a failure anyone spots in
+  review; it looks like a blank page.
+
+  Position is derivable, so it is used instead: the Nth radio shows the Nth
+  panel. Both lists are rendered in the same order, and a conditional tab drops
+  out of both at once, so they cannot drift apart. :nth-of-type counts by
+  element name, which is why the panels are <section> and the alerts above them
+  are <div> -- the alerts are not counted.
+
+  Enumerated to eight, comfortably more than exist. A ninth tab needs one line.
+*/
+.tabs__bar:has(input:nth-of-type(1):checked) ~ .tabs__body .tabs__panel:nth-of-type(1),
+.tabs__bar:has(input:nth-of-type(2):checked) ~ .tabs__body .tabs__panel:nth-of-type(2),
+.tabs__bar:has(input:nth-of-type(3):checked) ~ .tabs__body .tabs__panel:nth-of-type(3),
+.tabs__bar:has(input:nth-of-type(4):checked) ~ .tabs__body .tabs__panel:nth-of-type(4),
+.tabs__bar:has(input:nth-of-type(5):checked) ~ .tabs__body .tabs__panel:nth-of-type(5),
+.tabs__bar:has(input:nth-of-type(6):checked) ~ .tabs__body .tabs__panel:nth-of-type(6),
+.tabs__bar:has(input:nth-of-type(7):checked) ~ .tabs__body .tabs__panel:nth-of-type(7),
+.tabs__bar:has(input:nth-of-type(8):checked) ~ .tabs__body .tabs__panel:nth-of-type(8) {
   display: block;
 }
 .tabs__tab:has(:focus-visible) { outline: 2px solid var(--accent); outline-offset: -2px; }
 
+/*
+  A form's action row, and the space after the form it closes.
+
+  Not a plain .btn-row: a settings form is a stack of cards, and Save has to
+  read as belonging to the cards above it rather than to whatever comes next.
+  The gap that matters is the one *after* the form -- a card following it (the
+  "Try it" panel on the search page, say) otherwise sits flush against Save and
+  looks like another field of the same form. That margin therefore belongs to
+  the form, not to the action row: the action row is always its form's last
+  child, so a bottom margin there would have nothing to push away from.
+*/
+.form-actions {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: var(--sp-2);
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  margin-top: var(--sp-5);
+}
+
+.admin-page > form { margin-bottom: var(--sp-8); }
+.admin-page > form:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
+
 /* --- Cards ----------------------------------------------------------------- */
 .card {
   background: var(--surface);
diff --git a/src/lembas/web/templates/admin/audio.html b/src/lembas/web/templates/admin/audio.html
index d06d865..caf500d 100644
--- a/src/lembas/web/templates/admin/audio.html
+++ b/src/lembas/web/templates/admin/audio.html
@@ -61,8 +61,9 @@
         <input class="input" id="stt-model" name="stt_model"
                value="{{ values.stt_model }}" placeholder="whisper-1">
         <p class="field__hint">
-          Sent even to servers that only host one; a router in front of several
-          needs it.
+          A server hosting one model <strong>ignores this</strong> and uses
+          whatever it was started with — <code>whisper-1</code> is then just a
+          label. It only selects anything on a server that hosts several.
         </p>
       </div>
       <div class="field">
@@ -179,6 +180,6 @@
     <div id="audio-test-tts"></div>
   </section>
 
-  <div class="btn-row"><button class="btn btn--primary" type="submit">Save settings</button></div>
+  <div class="form-actions"><button class="btn btn--primary" type="submit">Save settings</button></div>
 </form>
 {% endblock %}
diff --git a/src/lembas/web/templates/admin/general.html b/src/lembas/web/templates/admin/general.html
index a5884a0..83759b3 100644
--- a/src/lembas/web/templates/admin/general.html
+++ b/src/lembas/web/templates/admin/general.html
@@ -84,6 +84,6 @@
     </p>
   </section>
 
-  <div class="btn-row"><button class="btn btn--primary" type="submit">Save settings</button></div>
+  <div class="form-actions"><button class="btn btn--primary" type="submit">Save settings</button></div>
 </form>
 {% endblock %}
diff --git a/src/lembas/web/templates/admin/search.html b/src/lembas/web/templates/admin/search.html
index 033d9ca..c41a23d 100644
--- a/src/lembas/web/templates/admin/search.html
+++ b/src/lembas/web/templates/admin/search.html
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
     </div>
   </section>
 
-  <div class="btn-row"><button class="btn btn--primary" type="submit">Save settings</button></div>
+  <div class="form-actions"><button class="btn btn--primary" type="submit">Save settings</button></div>
 </form>
 
 <section class="card">
diff --git a/tests/test_audio.py b/tests/test_audio.py
index db6bd90..e26fae6 100644
--- a/tests/test_audio.py
+++ b/tests/test_audio.py
@@ -298,6 +298,43 @@ def test_the_audio_tab_appears_only_once_audio_is_configured(
     assert "tab-audio" in client.get("/settings").text
 
 
+def _tab_lists(html: str) -> tuple[list[str], list[str]]:
+    import re
+
+    return (
+        re.findall(r'<input[^>]*name="settings-tab"[^>]*id="(tab-[a-z]+)"', html),
+        re.findall(r'<section class="tabs__panel" data-tab="(tab-[a-z]+)"', html),
+    )
+
+
+def test_every_settings_tab_has_a_panel_in_the_same_position(
+    client: TestClient, db, registered
+):
+    """The tabs are radios plus sibling selectors, and CSS cannot compare a
+    radio's id with a panel's data-tab -- the link is positional. A tab whose
+    panel is somewhere else in the order silently shows the wrong one, and a tab
+    with no panel shows a blank page. Neither is visible in review."""
+    settings_store.update(
+        db,
+        {"tts_enabled": True, "tts_base_url": "http://tts", "stt_enabled": True},
+        key=settings_store.AUDIO,
+    )
+    tabs, panels = _tab_lists(client.get("/settings").text)
+
+    assert tabs, "no tabs were found; the markup must have changed"
+    assert tabs == panels
+
+
+def test_the_positions_still_line_up_when_a_conditional_tab_is_absent(
+    client: TestClient, registered
+):
+    """Audio only appears once it is configured. It has to drop out of both
+    lists at once or everything after it shifts by one."""
+    tabs, panels = _tab_lists(client.get("/settings").text)
+    assert "tab-audio" not in tabs
+    assert tabs == panels
+
+
 def test_saving_audio_preferences(client: TestClient, db, registered):
     client.post(
         "/api/preferences/audio",