How to space the children of a div with css?

Question

I want a gap of say 30px; between all children of my div. E.g if I have:

    
   
   
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Answer 1

For an unknown amount of children you could use.

#parent > * {
    margin: 30px 0;
}

This will add a top and bottom margin of 30px to all direct children of #parent.

But img is not displaying as block default, so you may use:

#parent > * {
    display: block;
    margin: 30px 0;
}

Vertical margins of block elements will be collapsed. But you will have margins at top and bottom of your parent div. To avoid that use the following code:

#parent > * {
    display: block;
    margin-top: 30px;
}

#parent > *:first-child {
    margin-top: 0px;
}

This will only add top margin and removes that top margin for the first element.