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Padding on Elements of Visuals

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Russell Larkin on 13 Jul 2017 18:03:01

It would be useful to be able to set custom padding for the various elements of a visual, including padding around the edge and padding around the title.

Specifically, we would like to give our visuals a banner by colouring the background of the title. However, this looks odd currently because of the way the edges of the coloured background touch the top and bottom of the title text.

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Myriam Wertz on 22 Mar 2023 14:22:32

RE: Padding on Elements of Visuals

The latest Update had some huge improvements on that topic!But I would really like to add those paddings as defaults to my theme file. I just submitted a new idea for this: Microsoft Idea (powerbi.com)

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Hiznardo Diaz on 03 Feb 2023 21:02:12

RE: Padding on Elements of Visuals

It's wild that Power Bi has been around for this long and we still have to put rectangles behind cards to work around the padding issue.

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Myriam Wertz on 26 Jan 2023 16:00:06

RE: Padding on Elements of Visuals

Microsoft Idea (powerbi.com) this idea is really similar.

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Mira Nikkilä on 31 Aug 2022 13:36:11

RE: Padding on Elements of Visuals

Titles are way too close to the border, I need to set the padding around it myself so please, add the padding possibility at least.

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Livia Barton on 27 Apr 2022 13:28:56

RE: Padding on Elements of Visuals

Agree with others on this. Our design team is very displeased by the default titles being too close to the visualizations and also too close to the border if the dashboard has a background color. We’ve tried workarounds such as hiding the default title and adding separate text boxes and background boxes. While this workaround looks much better, unfortunately it seems to have more drawbacks than advantages including reduced page performance, lack of a title when exporting data from a chart, and difficulty copying/pasting a full visualization. Please prioritize this feature!

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Ruth Lammers on 14 Jan 2022 16:50:18

RE: Padding on Elements of Visuals

Still need this!

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Rebecca Brekke on 18 Aug 2020 11:40:31

RE: Padding on Elements of Visuals

Yes! I am trying to align all my visuals, and the titles within the visuals and it is driving me crazy.

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Azarel Howard on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:14

RE: Padding on Elements of Visuals

Even if this is only available in theme files. This would be great to have.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:54

RE: Padding on Elements of Visuals

Yes please! The title at the moment can sit very close to the actual visual - it's more comfortable on the eye for there to be more of a gap

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André Armenni on 05 Jul 2020 23:53:48

RE: Padding on Elements of Visuals

Yep!