Spacing and Paddings

Jun 25, 2025

DevExpress Layout Control allows you to customize spacing inside and around layout items and groups. Use padding and spacing properties to control layout density and visual structure.

Padding

Use the Padding property to specify inner indents (the distance between a layout item’s border and its content area).

Spacing

Use the Spacing property to specify outer indents (the distance between a layout item’s border and the space surrounding it).

Border Visibility

Layout items and groups have borders—visible or invisible.

Layout groups display borders by default. To hide them, set the LayoutGroup.GroupBordersVisible property to false.
Regular layout items and tabbed groups do not display borders, but the layout engine applies spacing and padding.

Example

The following image shows a layout group with:

Padding set to 10 on all sides.
Spacing set to 20 on all sides.

csharp

layoutControlGroup2.Padding = new DevExpress.XtraLayout.Utils.Padding(10);
layoutControlGroup2.Spacing = new DevExpress.XtraLayout.Utils.Padding(20);

Note

Spacing and Padding properties are not in effect for groups that are displayed as tabs within a tabbed group.