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# Spacer

A Spacer is a "virtual" widget, which can be placed into any layout and takes the space a normal widget of the same size would take.

## Features

- Spacers are invisible and very light weight because they don't require any DOM modifications

## Demos

Here are some links that demonstrate the usage of the widget:

- This demo shows how spacers can be used to configure vraiable spacing in a grid.
- This demo shows how spacers can be used to configure vraiable spacing in a box layout.

## API

Here is a link to the API of the Widget:
qx.ui.core.Spacer