Too much white space when adding components to App

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Well I figured it out. Turns out when you use .addComponent(myForm) it defaults the full_width_row option to False which means that changing the options in the IDE doesn’t do anything. This isn’t very intuitive as it is assumed that this option should be inherited and not defaulted.

The solution is to add:

content_panel.add_component(My_Form(), full_width_row = True)

Thanks to this forum for the solution:

Full width row question

I’m using the material design theme to build a site with multiple ‘pages.’ On my homepage, I use links in the left-nav bar to select different pages. In the homepage main section, I have a ColumnPanel named ‘content_panel’ where I will in code, place instances of different forms I’ve imported into homepage. In my different pages, I set everything to full width row, and when I edit them in the designer, they do indeed display full width (my desired outcome). However, when I add them as componen…