Part 8 Of Mastering Flexbox: Controlling Spacing With Gap (Not Margin)
In Part 7 of our Mastering Flexbox series, we focused on building flexible button, menu, and link rows. We used Layout Direction , Justify Content , Align Items , Gap , and Module Groups to create compact, responsive horizontal groups that can adapt across breakpoints. In Part 8, we’re focusing on one of the biggest workflow shifts in Divi 5: controlling spacing with Gap instead of relying on margin for every spacing adjustment. Many Divi users are used to spacing elements with individual margins. That habit can still work in specific cases, but it often creates extra cleanup when items wrap, stack, or change direction across breakpoints. In Divi 5, Horizontal Gap and Vertical Gap give you a cleaner way to control spacing between direct child elements from the parent container. In this post, we’ll show you how Gap works, where to apply it, when margin still makes sense, and how to use Gap to create cleaner spacing systems for rows, columns, Module Groups, Nested Mod...