How do I add a margin between bootstrap columns without wrapping

Tags: html,css,twitter-bootstrap,twitter-bootstrap-3

Problem :

My layout currently looks like this

In the center column, I want to add a small margin between each Server Div. But, if I add a margin to the CSS, it ends up line wrapping and looking like this

<div class="row info-panel">
    <div class="col-md-4 server-action-menu" id="server_1">
        <div>
            Server 1
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-4 server-action-menu" id="server_2">
        <div>
            Server 2
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-4 server-action-menu" id="server_3">
        <div>
            Server 3
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-4 server-action-menu" id="server_4">
        <div>
            Server 4
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-4 server-action-menu" id="server_5">
        <div>
            Server 5
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-4 server-action-menu" id="server_6">
        <div>
            Server 6
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-4 server-action-menu" id="server_7">
        <div>
            Server 7
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

And the CSS

.server-action-menu {
    background-color: transparent;
    background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(30, 87, 153, 0.2) 0%, rgba(125, 185, 232, 0) 100%);
    background-repeat: repeat;
    border-radius:10px;
}

.info-panel {
    padding: 4px;
}

I attempted to add the margins by doing this

.info-panel  > div {
    margin: 4px;    
}

How can I add a margin to the DIVs so that they don't leave so much space on the right hand side?

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Solution :

You should work with padding on the inner container rather than with margin. Try this!

HTML

<div class="row info-panel">
    <div class="col-md-4" id="server_1">
       <div class="server-action-menu">
           Server 1
       </div>
   </div>
</div>

CSS

.server-action-menu {
    background-color: transparent;
    background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(30, 87, 153, 0.2) 0%, rgba(125, 185, 232, 0) 100%);
    background-repeat: repeat;
    border-radius:10px;
    padding: 5px;
}