{"id":4172,"date":"2019-09-20T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wptest.sdelling.w3.uvm.edu\/?page_id=4172"},"modified":"2020-09-26T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T14:10:20","slug":"spacing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/manual\/spacing\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro--left\">How white space is used in a layout is critical to how people experience your page. It&#8217;s a fundamental element in effective design and helps lead the users through the content. We&#8217;ve established some guidelines to help you account for sufficient vertical spacing between your block components to assist in vertical spacing between elements when the default spacing is not sufficient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To implement spacing block on your page:<\/strong> While you are on the page you wish to edit, click on the block <em>before <\/em>where you want to add some vertical space. Then, click the little [+] icon at the top left of your page. Type &#8220;spacer&#8221; in the Block search field to filter all blocks by &#8220;spacer&#8221;. Select the &#8220;spacer&#8221; block to load it into your page below the component that you have selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some guidelines for vertical spacing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By default, the spacer sets 100px of vertical space. We have found that the following guidelines for vertical spacing work well on both desktop view and mobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8px spacer:<\/strong> Use after headlines<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>48px spacer:<\/strong> Use between blocks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>120px spacer:<\/strong> Use above the footer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>160px spacer:<\/strong> between certain components when stacked.. ie: between stacked Media &amp; Text blocks. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/manual-test\/landing-page-inspiration\/\">See example: <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:120px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How white space is used in a layout is critical to how people experience your page. It&#8217;s a fundamental element in effective design and helps lead the users through the content. We&#8217;ve established some guidelines to help you account for sufficient vertical spacing between your block components to assist in vertical spacing between elements when &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/manual\/spacing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spacing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5625,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"smasonla","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/manual\/author\/smasonla\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":null,"rttpg_excerpt":"How white space is used in a layout is critical to how people experience your page. It&#8217;s a fundamental element in effective design and helps lead the users through the content. We&#8217;ve established some guidelines to help you account for sufficient vertical spacing between your block components to assist in vertical spacing between elements when&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5380,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4172\/revisions\/5380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}