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arnold on Mar 04, 2025
Padding and margins are fundamental properties used to create space around elements on a webpage, ensuring that the content is well-organized and visually appealing. Effective use of these properties improves readability, creates visual hierarchy, and prevents elements from feeling cramped or misaligned. However, unexpected spacing issues can sometimes arise due to hidden margins, negative values, or built-in animations.
Padding refers to the space inside the boundary of an element, between the content and its border. It increases the element’s area without affecting its placement relative to other elements. Margins, on the other hand, define the space outside an element’s border, controlling the distance between it and its neighbors. While padding contributes to an element’s overall dimensions, margins do not.
In this tutorial, you’ll practice adjusting margins by exporting a section from a Themify template and modifying its spacing on your homepage. Along the way, you’ll also troubleshoot layout inconsistencies by identifying hidden margins, removing unnecessary animations, and aligning elements for a cleaner design. These small but important adjustments can greatly enhance the overall presentation of your webpage.
I will show you a quick video of everything I am doing in this tutorial and then break it down step by step:
Step By Step Instructions
To practice margins lets export a section from a themify template into our homepage and work with the spacing.
To start, go to the homepage of your website and Turn on your builder and go to layouts then load layouts.
Search for Music and select the Music – Contact
Scroll Down to the Press Section and click on the Purple Option Box. Then Select the three dots and then export. Click on the code and click Copy.
Click X to close out. DO NOT SAVE.
Turn your builder back on. Go to the bottom of your page and add a new section. The Find the Purple Options and Go To Import Then Copy your code into the box.
Next drag this section to the top of your website just below the hero so that I can check your work quickly when I grade. You will see a purple highlight as you drag the section up. Move the highlighted section just below your hero image.
Now save your website and take a look at the section. You will notice there is a slight animation in the image that is moving it up and down. Also the Album II and Vinyl King images are purposely off-centered. We are going to remove the animation and make these images line up.
To remove animation we need to go to the animation section of the image and look for where the animation is configured. Once we see the animation we can click on RESET ALL EFFECTS and the animation will be removed.
Next we need to remove margins from the images to line them up.
Once we set the margin to Zero we can see that the spacing is still off.
We now need to figure out where the weird margin is coming from. Check the styling on all the elements in the orange sections, the button, etc. After some investigation I can see that there is a -40 margin in the purple section that is pulling it up to the button. If I set that to 0 it goes back to normal but the spacing gets more lined up when I set it it at 10 for the top and -8 for the left.
The next thing I will do is add a line of text to the image on the left. We want both captions to have the same number of lines of text so they are evened out.
The final step that I will take to even out the spacing in the section is to adjust the image and make it so it stretches the entire length of the content. Follow the instructions in the image below:
Next click on the image of the guy playing the guitar and then click “Insert File URL.”
Next make the image fullcover and delete the smaller image. The advantage of doing the image like this is that it will fill out the entire section and it will stretch if you add more content. Click the save button to save your work.
By understanding and adjusting padding and margins, you can fine-tune the spacing of elements on your webpage for a more structured and visually appealing layout. In this tutorial, you practiced exporting and importing a section in Themify, troubleshooting spacing issues, and aligning elements by modifying margin values. These skills allow you to control the presentation of your content effectively. As you continue refining your designs, always check for hidden margins, negative values, and animation effects that may impact spacing. Small adjustments can make a big difference in achieving a polished and professional-looking webpage.
