# TreeView vertical spacing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/treeview-vertical-spacing/226254>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [December 19, 2011, 11:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/treeview-vertical-spacing/226254 "2011-12-19T11:49:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![micheldogger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@micheldogger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/micheldogger)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 11:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/treeview-vertical-spacing/226254/1 "2011-12-19T11:49:40Z")

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Does anyone knows how to decrease the default (vertical) spacing between  
lines in a TreeStore (or TreeView) ?

I googled, found the question (for Python), but no answer.

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**Author:** ![micheldogger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@micheldogger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/micheldogger)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 12:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/treeview-vertical-spacing/226254/2 "2011-12-19T12:04:02Z")

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Answer (thanks to Michal S.)

By default, the TextRenderer ypad value is 2. “renderer.ypad = 0” does  
the trick.

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