Table margin bottom too small in RNotebook

[MokeEire]

The bottom margin between a gt() table in an RNotebook chunk (with no specified chunk options) and markdown text which follows it is too small.

mtcars %>% 
  rownames_to_column() %>% 
  mutate(hp_per_us_ton = hp/(2*wt)) %>% 
  arrange(-hp_per_us_ton) %>% 
  select(rowname, mpg, hp, wt, hp_per_us_ton) %>% 
  head(10) %>% 
  gt()

Looks like this:

[rich-iannone]

I was reminded of this recently and I think it definitely does not look good at all. Also, occurs in RMarkdown documents (and probably in other contexts too).

[MokeEire]

The following addition to a CSS file solved it for me:

.gt_table {
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    margin-top: 20px;
}

[qdread]

The CSS solution was helpful for me also in the context of print()ing a large number of gt tables in a loop within a code chunk, to put padding between them.