Power BI Visual Padding using themes

Visual padding was a long awaited feature in Power BI and Microsoft added support for it  in 2023-March release of Power BI. In the past, users had to use dirty workarounds to create padding and this new feature is a great addition to Power BI.

As of May 2023 release, the padding feature has some limitations:

• Padding adjustments are per side; no shortcut to  adjust top, bottom, left and right  at one go
• No way to define a default padding at report level

To overcome this issue, we can control the Power BI visual padding using themes.  We will use a simple theme that only adjust the padding for demonstration. Please save the below snippet as a json file so that we can use it as  a theme.

{
    "name": "Padding Demo",
    "visualStyles": {
        "*": {
            "*": {
                "padding":[{
                    "top":20,
                    "bottom":20,
                    "left": 20,
                    "right":20
                 }]
            }
        }

    }
}