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I am building a dashboard with React and Tailwind CSS. The layout consists of a sidebar and a main content area. Both the sidebar header and the main content header have a fixed height of h-28 to ensure they align horizontally.
However, I'm facing a strange issue: In the "Dashboard" and "Management" views, the content has a perfect vertical gap to the header, but in the "Logbook" and "Debugging" views, the content seems to "stick" directly to the top header or is misaligned compared to the other views.
Here is the relevant layout structure:
// Main Layout <main className="flex-1 flex flex-col overflow-y-auto relative"> <header className="h-28 border-b border-white/5 sticky top-0 z-40 bg-[#08080a]/80 backdrop-blur-3xl px-20"> <h2 className="text-3xl text-white">{view}</h2> </header> <div className="p-20 max-w-[2800px] w-full mx-auto"> {view === 'dashboard' && renderDashboard()} {view === 'logbook' && renderLogbook()} </div> </main>And here is the difference in my view functions:
// Dashboard - Aligns perfectly const renderDashboard = () => ( <div className="space-y-12 animate-fade-in uppercase"> <div className="flex bg-[#121217] p-8 rounded-[3rem] border border-white/5"> {/* Filter Content */} </div> </div> ); // Logbook - Sticks to the top / misaligned const renderLogbook = () => ( <div className="bg-[#121217] rounded-[4rem] border border-white/5 overflow-hidden"> <div className="p-16 border-b border-white/5"> <h3>System Events</h3> </div> {/* Table Content */} </div> );Why does the Dashboard view respect the vertical spacing correctly while the Logbook view does not, even though they are both rendered inside the same div with p-20 padding? Does it have to do with how space-y or the internal card margins interact with the parent container's padding?
