Add vertical whitespace using Twitter Bootstrap?

Question

What\'s the best way to add vertical whitespace using Twitter\'s Bootstrap?

For example, let\'s say that I am creating a landing page and would like a bit (100px) o

Answer 1

Just use <br/>. I found myself here looking for the answer to this question and then felt sort of silly for not thinking about using a simple line break as suggested by user JayKilleen in a comment.

Answer 2

In v2, there isn't anything built-in for that much vertical space, so you'll want to stick with a custom class. For smaller heights, I usually just throw a <div class="control-group"> around a button.

Answer 3

I merely created a div class using various heights i.e.

<div class="divider-10"></div>

The CSS is:

.divider-10 {
    width:100%; 
    min-height:1px; 
    margin-top:10px; 
    margin-bottom:10px;  
    display:inline-block; 
    position:relative;
}

Just create a divider class for what ever heights are needed.

Answer 4

Sorry to dig an old grave here, but why not just do this?

<div class="form-group">
    &nbsp;
</div>

It will add a space the height of a normal form element.

It seems about 1 line on a form is roughly 50px (47px on my element I just inspected). This is a horizontal form, with label on left 2col and input on right 10col. So your pixels may vary.

Since mine is basically 50px, I would create a spacer of 50px tall with no margins or padding;

.spacer { margin:0; padding:0; height:50px; }
<div class="spacer"></div>

Answer 5

My trick. Not elegant, but it works:

<p>&nbsp;</p>

Answer 6

In Bootstrap 4 there are spacing utilites.

Citing the documentation for used notation:

Spacing utilities that apply to all breakpoints, from xs to xl, have no breakpoint abbreviation in them. This is because those classes are applied from min-width: 0 and up, and thus are not bound by a media query. The remaining breakpoints, however, do include a breakpoint abbreviation.

The classes are named using the format {property}{sides}-{size} for xs and {property}{sides}-{breakpoint}-{size} for sm, md, lg, and xl.

Where property is one of:

• m - for classes that set margin
• p - for classes that set padding

Where sides is one of:

• t - for classes that set margin-top or padding-top
• b - for classes that set margin-bottom or padding-bottom
• l - for classes that set margin-left or padding-left
• r - for classes that set margin-right or padding-right
• x - for classes that set both *-left and *-right
• y - for classes that set both *-top and *-bottom
• blank - for classes that set a margin or padding on all 4 sides of the element

Where size is one of:

• 0 - for classes that eliminate the margin or padding by setting it to 0
• 1 - (by default) for classes that set the margin or padding to $spacer * .25
• 2 - (by default) for classes that set the margin or padding to $spacer * .5
• 3 - (by default) for classes that set the margin or padding to $spacer
• 4 - (by default) for classes that set the margin or padding to $spacer * 1.5
• 5 - (by default) for classes that set the margin or padding to $spacer * 3

---

So to have some extra vertical space above and below an element you would use my-5 class.