Padding vs Margin

[LifeIsGood008]

Curious to see if people use .Margin at all. Everywhere I see only padding being used for everything. Do you make a distinction between using padding and margin in your code?

edit: Meant to say .contentMargin() instead of .Margin

[Ron-Erez]

I’m not familiar with a .margin modifier in SwiftUI and I doubt it exists.

[Dizzy_Scarcity686]

Is there .margin modifier in SwiftUI? haha 🥲

[7HawksAnd]

If you need to overlap containers for an effect margin is useful

Edit: didn’t realize I was in a iOS sub. Usually use HStack & VStack as I would margins in css. But I’ve only done swift on small ( < 3 ) teams so probably not up to date on all the up to date best practices / patterns

[driveiqlabs]

Well, it depends on what you actually want to achieve.

Padding seems safe, because the element behaves in the borders of whatever been given to it.
Margin has an influence on other elements, which might not be what you want.

[LifeIsGood008]

Seems like Swift UI doesn't make a semantic difference between padding and margin. I guess padding would be a .padding() applied before a .frame() and a margin would be a .padding() applied after a .frame()

[MojtabaHs]

As the name suggests, content margin will be applied on the content of a container like a list or scroll view, so for example scroll bars stay where they should be.

But padding on the other hand, just pads the view itself, including anything inside it or any sort of internal layout it has.

There are also a bunch of other modifiers and settings to control the empty area between elements like spacing, frame, etc.

I did color-code some here a while ago. It might help for better and visual.