# Space between widgets **URL:** \ **Category:** Dashboard\ **Tags:** dashboard-2\ **Created:** [29 June 2024 10:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/space-between-widgets/89079 "2024-06-29T10:55:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gaetano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gaetano/32/81395_2.png) [@Gaetano](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Gaetano)\ **Post date:** [29 June 2024 10:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/space-between-widgets/89079/1 "2024-06-29T10:55:13Z")
Hi guys, I'm using native NR 4.0 on PI 4b. Dashboard-2 1.12.2. Is there a way to manage the spacing between 2 widget on dashboard? I've tried to use "widget gap" on a Theme, but it seems to have no effect. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![joepavitt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/joepavitt/32/59722_2.png) [@joepavitt](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joepavitt)\ **Post date:** [29 June 2024 11:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/space-between-widgets/89079/2 "2024-06-29T11:15:22Z")
Hi @Gaetano - the theme's "Widget Gap" _should_ be controlling exactly that. I'm not at my laptop to check properly, but off the top of my the only thing I can think of trying is to do a "Full Deploy" in Node-RED, rather than just modified flows/nodes. ---
**Author:** ![joepavitt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/joepavitt/32/59722_2.png) [@joepavitt](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joepavitt)\ **Post date:** [29 June 2024 11:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/space-between-widgets/89079/3 "2024-06-29T11:31:31Z")
Managed to get to a machine, and changed "Widget Gap" to "64px" and it did as I would expect: ![Messenger_creation_6f56387f-1ff4-431d-a644-4f50c8c034c6](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/6/d/6dff883eadac6bbb02f110346b96ca81cf6a94b8.jpeg) ![Messenger_creation_d4557e9e-5163-467a-9e98-22bf62081098](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/f/e/fe9cb725171741ca080155678e16b57b3508cc0a.jpeg) Do you see something different? ---
**Author:** ![Gaetano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gaetano/32/81395_2.png) [@Gaetano](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Gaetano)\ **Post date:** [29 June 2024 11:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/space-between-widgets/89079/4 "2024-06-29T11:43:38Z")
> [@joepavitt](#): > > Hi @Gaetano - the theme's "Widget Gap" _should_ be controlling exactly that. I'm not at my laptop to check properly, but off the top of my the only thing I can think of trying is to do a "Full Deploy" in Node-RED, rather than just modified flows/nodes. Joe, I've tried a Full deploy but nothing is changed. I would like to reduce the space. Maybe is there a lower limit? I have a synoptic quite large and I would like to reduce the space. Sure, I could create more pages, of course. And I will do this if there are no other solutions ---
**Author:** ![Gaetano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gaetano/32/81395_2.png) [@Gaetano](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Gaetano)\ **Post date:** [29 June 2024 11:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/space-between-widgets/89079/5 "2024-06-29T11:44:59Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/9/3/9374bf0a23970c65f5db7ccd778e12f8e16fcbdf.png) ---
**Author:** ![joepavitt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/joepavitt/32/59722_2.png) [@joepavitt](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joepavitt)\ **Post date:** [29 June 2024 11:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/space-between-widgets/89079/6 "2024-06-29T11:58:29Z")
Thanks, I can see from this the gap is reduced, but each "row" has a minimum height. Adding a "compact" view is on our todo list, as this is feedback we have had a lot ---
**Author:** ![Gaetano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gaetano/32/81395_2.png) [@Gaetano](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Gaetano)\ **Post date:** [29 June 2024 12:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/space-between-widgets/89079/7 "2024-06-29T12:10:56Z")
Joe, I would like reduce the space between rows and not the row itself. In other words: looking at the image of my synoptic, I would reduce, for example, the space between "Plafoniera Letto" and "Salone". The blank space should be lower. The following, is the same synoptic on dashboard-1 (captured by the same browser): as you can see, it is smaller than that of dashboard-2. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/9/8/982647a8a4fc387c9232a1050c54231d28068f87.png) ---
**Author:** ![joepavitt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/joepavitt/32/59722_2.png) [@joepavitt](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joepavitt)\ **Post date:** [29 June 2024 19:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/space-between-widgets/89079/8 "2024-06-29T19:47:53Z")
> [@Gaetano](#): > > , I would reduce, for example, the space between "Plafoniera Letto" and "Salone". The blank space should be lower. Thanks for the clarification, I went a little specific, without explanation. Each "row" in Dashboard is 48px. So the "space" is actually within a row/widget itself, rather than surrounding it. That's why we need to provide an option for "compact" widget variants, so the row height is smaller. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [13 July 2024 19:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/space-between-widgets/89079/9 "2024-07-13T19:48:37Z")
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