Spacing

A series of utility classes that adjust the margin and padding property of a selector, with support for responsive modifiers.

Install

npm install seed-spacing --save

Dependencies

• seed-breakpoints
• seed-publish

Usage

Basic

seed-spacing provides a range of spacing utilities for both margin and padding.

Use mrg for margins, and pad for padding.

An example spacing utility class looks like this:

.u-mrg-5

The above class will add a margin of 20px in all directions when applied to a selector.

Examples:

<div class="u-mrg-5">
  Wow! I magically have a margin of 20px all around me!
</div>

<div class="u-pad-2">
  Oh snap! I magically have a padding of 8px all around me!
</div>

Auto (margin only)

The following example is applicable only to margin utility classes.

.u-mrg-l-auto

All directions

The following example is applicable to both padding and margin utility classes.

.u-mrg-5

Directional

The following example is applicable to both padding and margin utility classes.

See the list of directional modifiers.

.u-mrg-t-5

Responsive

The following example is applicable to both padding and margin utility classes.

See the list of responsive modifiers.

.u-mrg-t-5@md

Sizes

px sizes

By default, seed-spacing provides a range of sizes 1-10 using a base of 4px.

Directional modifiers

Configurations

Below are the default Sass configuration variables for seed-spacing. The variables can be found in the pack’s _config.scss file.

seed-spacing/_config.scss

// Namespace
$seed-spacing-margin-namespace: "u-mrg" !default;
$seed-spacing-padding-namespace: "u-pad" !default;

// Sizes
$seed-spacing-sizes: (
  0: 0,
  1: 4px,
  2: 8px,
  3: 12px,
  4: 16px,
  5: 20px,
  6: 24px,
  7: 28px,
  8: 32px,
  9: 36px,
  10: 40px,
  auto: (auto),
) !default;

// Directions
$seed-spacing-directions: (
  none:   0,
  all:    "a",
  top:    "t",
  right:  "r",
  bottom: "b",
  left:   "l",
  hor:    "h",
  vert:   "v"
) !default;