Placeholder indicator won't highlight in an empty container.

[uwieske]

Hi (artf),

I have been searching for similar issue in the issue database and was hoping to get more practical/concrete or helpful information so that I could resolve my placeholder issue. But, still not successful.

I have defined my components (with corresponding blocks). The content of my containers (DIV tags) are all empty.
But with an empty setup (with no styling/class annotations on the DIV element), I am not able to insert blocks (components) in the DIV container. The green marker/placeholder won't snap to the container, unless I define a padding style with a height/min-height of 20px. I read the latter in another posted issue. But, if I defined these padding just to resolve placement of block/components, this style properties will also become part of my actual page layout. I don;t desire this behaviour. Is there another solution?
I noticed that a container must have a minimum height in order the placeholder to work properly.
Any suggestions?

[artf]

You can create a custom empty state for your DOM elements in the canvas (this will not affect the final code)
#3076 (comment)