Title: Problem with basic settings: margin and padding
Last modified: February 17, 2022

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# Problem with basic settings: margin and padding

 *  [ivangneiding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivangneiding/)
 * (@ivangneiding)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-basic-settings-margin-and-padding/)
 * Hi.
    First of all, sorry for my bad English, but I hope I can make you understand.
 * I was trying to use Gutenberg over other known and paid editors or even addons
   for Gutenberg.
    My main goal is to use only standard Gutenberg blocks (with any
   theme I want) to make faster sites (with less plugins as I can). But I feel I
   can’t do some basic settings on blocks, like adding margin and padding. These
   options simple don’t exists. It’s quite a big issue if you like to do stuff easily
   and fast, without adding classes and code to theme. Looks like if I want to to
   use 20 blocks with 20 different configurations of margin and padding, I would
   have to use 20 different classes and so on. For example, how can I make this 
   simple task without coding: make this title ([see print here](https://snipboard.io/5PXBmW.jpg))
   a little bit further from image and make the lower image a little bit upper so
   it can partially cover the other image ([like this print](https://snipboard.io/c6WK87.jpg),
   which I easily made with Gutentor margin and padding options)? Looks like I can’t
   from side bar blocks options. Another example ([in this other print](https://snipboard.io/KVNnPh.jpg))
   I want to have text like 30px down to have a little distance from image above.
   I can’t do that without code or without adding a third element (like spacer).
   That is scary for me, I use margin and padding all the time for many reasons.
   So, I’m obligated to install a plugin which have natively much options for all
   blocks, like Gutentor, Qubely, Kadence Blocks, Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg 
   or any other, otherwise I would have to spend lots of time coding CSS, or using
   paid stuff (which I really don’t want) There’s other issues like adding margin/
   padding to columns and not blocks itself. Will Gutenberg have in any edition 
   basic options like those I said (margin and padding)? Or there’s a “hidden way”
   to do that and I don’t know how to access it? I would like to do it without using
   another plugin.
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by [ivangneiding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivangneiding/).
      Reason: Fixing wrong printscreen

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-basic-settings-margin-and-padding/)
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