Hi,
UPDATE: Just noticed that Gallery blocks from old, legacy pages can be copy/pasted into 7.1 pages, even if you aren't a Circle member. Hope that loophole doesn't get blocked by Squarespace anytime soon.
Well, 7.1 did not solve the problem of adjusting spacing between sections and it managed to make gallery functionality less useful by forcing us to use gallery sections rather than blocks (<-- please let me know if I've missed something WRT this). I just spent another 4 hours tackling the specific problem of spacing between a section and a following gallery section. I want to share for two reasons:
To help anyone else driven nuts by this and...
To find out whether there's a better way to do this as I suspect this is a bit of a hack.
The invaluable tuanphan (and many others) have provided lots of options to tackle this problem between standard sections and even gallery sections. But nothing worked with slideshow gallery sections. In general, most suggestions involve reducing the top padding of the gallery section to 0px. What I found was that I had to reduce the vertical spacing using relative viewport width (vw) units—specific pixel amounts never worked:
/* make dang slide show a little better vertically aligned. This pulls the slide show UP into the previous section*/
.page-section[data-section-id="THIS IS THE SLIDE SHOW ID"] {
margin-top: -5vw !important;
}
The Squarespace editor view will show the slideshow covering the previous section.
All seems to work fine in Safari and Chrome, however. Who the heck knows what'll happen on mobile (haven't tested this yet).
Now, if someone can figure out how to align the galleries horizontally and control the actual width, life would be wonderful.
