Add vertical whitespace using Twitter Bootstrap?

Question

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.

Wrapping works but when you just want a space, I like:

<div class="col-xs-12" style="height:50px;"></div>

In Bootstrap 4/5 there are spacing utilites (BS4, BS5).

Excerpt from the documentation:

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 (please note differences in BS4 and BS5):

• 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 (Bootstrap 4)
• s - for classes that set margin-left or padding-left (Bootstrap 5)
• r - for classes that set margin-right or padding-right (Bootstrap 4)
• e - for classes that set margin-right or padding-right (Bootstrap 5)
• 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

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

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>

I know this is old, but I came here searching for the same thing, I found that Bootstrap has the help-block, very handy for these situations:

<div class="help-block"></div>

For version 3 there doesn't appear to be "bootstrap" way to achieve this neatly.

A panel, a well and a form-group all provide some vertical spacing.

A more formal specific vertical spacing solution is, apparently, on the roadmap for bootstrap v4

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/4286#issuecomment-36331550 https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/13532