diff --git a/webview-ui/src/components/chat/ChatView.tsx b/webview-ui/src/components/chat/ChatView.tsx
index 6dffaa7368..d114701e18 100644
--- a/webview-ui/src/components/chat/ChatView.tsx
+++ b/webview-ui/src/components/chat/ChatView.tsx
@@ -1415,10 +1415,7 @@ const ChatViewComponent: React.ForwardRefRenderFunction<ChatViewRef, ChatViewPro
 						<Virtuoso
 							ref={virtuosoRef}
 							key={task.ts} // trick to make sure virtuoso re-renders when task changes, and we use initialTopMostItemIndex to start at the bottom
-							className="scrollable grow overflow-y-scroll"
-							components={{
-								Footer: () => <div className="h-[5px]" />, // Add empty padding at the bottom
-							}}
+							className="scrollable grow overflow-y-scroll mb-[5px]"
 							// increasing top by 3_000 to prevent jumping around when user collapses a row
 							increaseViewportBy={{ top: 3_000, bottom: Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER }} // hack to make sure the last message is always rendered to get truly perfect scroll to bottom animation when new messages are added (Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER is safe for arithmetic operations, which is all virtuoso uses this value for in src/sizeRangeSystem.ts)
 							data={groupedMessages} // messages is the raw format returned by extension, modifiedMessages is the manipulated structure that combines certain messages of related type, and visibleMessages is the filtered structure that removes messages that should not be rendered