Bookmark Navigator vs Card - Grid Layout Padding Mismatch

[awright19]

I'm creating a navigation panel to show/hide different sections of a tab. In order to include some metrics and conditional formatting for the background in the "bookmark", I created a card with the metrics & formatting and then put a bookmark navigator on top of it. Which worked great until I added a border on the bookmark navigator to be able to see which one was selected. The borders of the two don't line up. All of the sizes, paddings, layouts, etc match. It looks like the grid layout padding is treated differently for cards and the bookmark navigator. Am I missing something?

The image below shows some examples I created to try to see what was going on. The top in each set is the bookmark navigator and the bottom is the card visual. The top set both have a grid layout padding of 5, the middle is 10 and the bottom is 0. It's almost like the bookmark navigator doubles the padding of the other.

Thanks for any insight!

Angie

[awright19]

Thanks for the explanation. It's interesting that cards have the more logical "space between cards" option and bookmark navigator is a different concept. I'll make it work.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @awright19 ,

In the context of Power BI’s Grid layout tab options, the term 'Padding' specifically refers to the space that separates individual buttons. For instance, if you were to set this padding value to 5, it would result in a total separation of 10 units between two consecutive bookmarks (i.e., Bookmark1 and Bookmark2). This total is derived from the sum of the individual padding values of 5 units for each bookmark. Please refer to the attached screenshot for a visual representation of this concept. I hope this clarifies your query.

Create page and bookmark navigators - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

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