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SharePoint Online modern pages – spacing/gaps lost between web parts in flexible sections 2026
We're experiencing an issue across all our SharePoint Online modern pages. All existing pages with flexible sections have lost the spacing/gaps between image web parts — tiles are now butted right up against each other with no padding or margins.
Key details from our troubleshooting:
- Affects all existing modern pages across multiple SharePoint sites (8+ sites, many pages)
- New pages created after the issue started render correctly with proper spacing
- Affects multiple users in our tenant
- Tested across multiple devices and browsers (Chrome, Edge, mobile) — same result
- We are on Standard release, no targeted release enabled
- No changes made to our tenant settings
This is causing our intranet pages to look unprofessional and difficult to navigate. Please can Microsoft investigate and roll back whatever CSS/rendering change caused this.
Tenant region: UK
4 Replies
I'm having a similar issue today. Designed beautiful layouts with overlapping parts. Went in today and the images are all resized and I cannot adjust them and spacing has been eliminated. I've tried Chrome and Edge, updated Chrome, and tried restoring a previous version. I have edit permissions and am the owner of the sites and have confirmed that users without editing permissions are seeing the same issue.
Before I put in a ticket with MS, has anyone been able to fix this or heard from MS?
I have raised this with MS but I haven't had a reply yet. I have also got the same permissions and I have also tried other browsers but myself and the team have the same issue
We have just had this exact thing occur in our development tenant, but NOT in our test tenant...Did anyone get any answers from MSFT? Has everyone eliminated using Flexible sections on their pages? We are tempted to go through and remove them, because we don't know if this will happen in our test and prod tenants? (yes we have mulltiple separate tenants)...Do we have a root cause, will this eventually happen to all of our tenants?
Yes, I’m also experiencing a similar issue in my tenant.
The behaviour is quite strange, users with only read access on the page are seeing this spacing/layout problem, but when the same user has edit permissions, the page renders correctly.
