When it comes to spacing in the Bootstrap grid system, gutters are specific to the grid layout, while margins can be applied to any element.
Gutters are designed to adjust the margins and padding of Bootstrap grid elements like row
and col
, affecting the space between columns within a row.
On the contrary, margins can be utilized on any HTML element.
While margins and padding can achieve similar spacing effects as gutters, gutters offer a more streamlined approach for adjusting grid spacing without the need to modify each column individually. For instance, the first row below utilizes gutters for spacing with less markup...
<!-- no gutters set to 0 -->
<div class="row gx-0">
<div class="col">
</div>
<div class="col">
</div>
<div class="col">
</div>
<div class="col">
</div>
</div>
<!-- no gutters using margins and padding -->
<div class="row m-0">
<div class="col px-0">
</div>
<div class="col px-0">
</div>
<div class="col px-0">
</div>
<div class="col px-0">
</div>
</div>
Check out the demo here