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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
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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.
