5px padding added to report at publish which creates a different appearance than what is designed

[branepar]

Hi!

When working in Power BI Desktop no padding is added to objects why layouting can be done in a good way. But when publishing a report to PowerBI services a 5px padding is added which moves Titles slightly down and creates a different (and not wanted) appearance than in PowerBI Desktop. How can this padding be dropped to have the published report look the same as the designed report (and look like it looked before)?

This behavior was noticed today, but might have been there for longer time, however we do know it has not been there "forever" as we have other objects not using Title setting and those are still aligned as intended.

We have not recently updated PowerBI desktop or our custom theme, so we cant really link this changed behaviour to any change we have done except publishing an updated report.

[v-shex-msft]

Hi @branepar,

What version and type of web browser are you worked on? AFAIK, current power bi already listed some known issues on the support page about the scale and overlapping render issues on some versions of the web browsers.

Spoiler

Power BI customers may experience inconsistencies in report visuals, such as overlapping/misaligned content or truncated text. Engineers have identified the root cause and fix is expected to be deployed by end-of-day 09/19/2021. Once the fixed is deployed, customers need to clear the browser cache and login to service for the fix to take effect.

Power BI customers using Edge or Chrome V93 web browsers with the default page scale set to 100% may experience UI behavior issues when interacting with common web page controls, such as dropdown slicers, date pickers, or line charts. As a workaround, users can use the zoom setting of anything other than 100% which forces the browser to behave normally. Engineers have identified root cause, and fix is expected to be deployed by end-of-day 09/19/2021.

Support | Microsoft Power BI
Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[branepar]

...and to answer your question.
Latest Chrome = 93.0.4577.82 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Latest Firefox = 92.0 (64-bit) (Firefox in itself have bad rendering quality for PowerBI, but that is not for this thread and less important for us)

[branepar · Accepted solution]

The link you sent said a fix was applied yesterday and now it looks more normal! Yippi!
(however everything is not back to normal as bookmark objects are messed up now, will troubleshoot to find if some other PowerBI styling has caused that)(these reports used to work for at least a year without styling problems like this)

[v-shex-msft]

HI @branepar,

I'm glad to hear that the quick fix works. 
In addition, if they have not fully fixed your situations, you can consider contact to power bi team to report with detailed information to help them fix these more quickly.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[branepar]

Strange thing still is that this is new behaviour and cant find that we have made these changes (dont even know how). When did Microsoft add that 5px padding?

Have searched for proof when it did not exist and at least 2020-05-12 it did not exist as have a presentation where the titles are aligned as intended.

[lbendlin]

The only way to get pixel perfect rendering is to use paginated reports.  Neither Power BI Desktop nor Power BI service give any rendering guarantee.