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title: "Using Spacers to separate plugin parameters in Joomla 2.5"
description: "Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our last article,..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/spacers/
date: 2012-06-21
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "Brad Markle"
categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 2.5"]
tags: ["Joomla v2.5"]
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lang: en
---

# Using Spacers to separate plugin parameters in Joomla 2.5

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life [here](https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_CMS_versions).

In our last article, we showed you [how to use fieldsets](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/fieldset-names/) to divide parameter settings in a Joomla 2.5 plugin. Within each feildset, you can use [**spacers**](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/wordpress/gutenberg/spacer-block-wordpress/) to help divide the parameters even further.

Look at the following sample code:

<fieldset name="basic">
**<field name="text-options" type="spacer" default="Text Settings" label="&lt;b&gt;Text Settings&lt;/b&gt;" description="Text Settings" />**
<field name="alt-text" type="text" default="" label="Alternative Text" description="Besides Hello World, you can specify other text here to print to the screen instead." />
**<field name="font-options" type="spacer" default="Font Settings" label="&lt;b&gt;Font Settings&lt;/b&gt;" description="Font Settings" />**
<field name="color" type="radio" default="black" description="Which color should the message be displayed in?" label="Color">
<option value="black">black</option>
<option value="red">red</option>
<option value="blue">blue</option>
</field>
<field name="font-size" type="list" default="12" description="What size font should the message use?" label="Font size">
<option value="8">8px</option>
<option value="12">12px</option>
<option value="16">16px</option>
</field>
</fieldset>
Highlighted in red are two fields with a type of spacer, **type=”spacer”**. You can see in the screenshot below how spacers can be used to divide parameters.

[![using-spacers-in-fieldsets](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_create-plugin-tutorial_using-spacers-in-fieldsets.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_create-plugin-tutorial_using-spacers-in-fieldsets.gif)