In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about margins. There are a lot of techniques for dealing with margins - padding instead of margin, only margin or padding bottom, Flexbox for everything, Grid for everything, or a spacing Div.

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Show Notes

• 00:30 Welcome
• 01:39 Sponsor: Sentry
• 02:50 Sponsor: Auth0
• 04:25 Introduction to margins
• 08:28 Margin vs padding
• 11:46 New techniques
• 14:32 The spacer div
• 17:36 Why do it as a component vs a class?

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