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Add Spaces to Dock in OS X

This is absolutely not HTML related, but by sheer demand, I needed to add it somewhere. To add a "space" to the dock in OS X, open up Terminal.app and enter this. Enter it as many times as you want spaces. Error on too many, they are easy to remove.

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'

They won't show up until you force restart the Dock with:

killall Dock

To remove them, just drag them up and out of the Dock like any other icon. To move them around, click and drag.

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  1. shawtttt

    Chris, maybe it’s time to add another snippet section? Mac os snippets? :)

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  2. Jacob

    Thank you so much for this! I’ve been waiting for this since I bought my mac earlier this year.

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  3. CTPE30

    This is absolutely awesome! Simple and easy to use and get rid of them later if needed. Great! Thank you very much for sharing it.

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  4. Jon Stuebe

    You guys should check out the pref pane secrets. Has this little terminal command along with a ton other useful ones.

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  5. @joely

    Brilliant!

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  6. Chris

    lol that was one of my first thoughts when I saw your intro video. Thanks for addressing it!

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  7. Joseph

    Seems like this might work only in 10.5 and above? Wasn’t able to get any spaces in 10.4.11.

    I need to upgrade anyway.

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  8. Matthew Guay

    If you’d like a similar effect in Windows 7, I just wrote an article on How-to Geek about it: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/28255/how-to-organize-your-programs-in-the-windows-7-taskbar/.

    Thanks Chris for the inspiration … when I saw your dock in “Digging into WordPress” I knew I had to have that :)

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  9. Andy

    I love this trick. I used to watch your screencasts and always wanted to know how you got those spaces. I actually found it several weeks ago on another site, but this is great to have as I tend to get carried away with customizing my dock.

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  10. GTinLA

    Hey…thanks a bunch….love that tip…cheers

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  11. Tony

    I can’t seem to get the spaces where I want them, any help please ?

    Thanks so much !

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  12. Flavio

    Tks a lot!!! work fine!!!

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  13. Ryan Baillargeon

    Very Cool SIte – found it on smashing’s twitter. Thanks for the script here.

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  14. Daniel

    http://macusertips.com/itweakdock/ an easy way to add spaces (and toggle between 2D/3D)

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    • matt

      Super cool.
      Ive always wanted to organize the dock so I can group the applications in it better.

  15. Gyonka

    You put this in the HTML category?

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  16. Casey

    Thank you so much!! I have been looking for this all over, and found it here!

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  17. Phil D

    Thanks for posting this Chris
    - From memory I think I was one of the naggers asking for this… cheers

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  18. jkjkjk

    Onyx application do that and even much more extremely useful maintenance

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  19. Chad

    Thanks Chris

    Always learning a lot form you and CSS-Tricks. Please Keep them Coming

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  20. sumesh

    good thought

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  21. Rod

    look http://www.cusaro.it – it’s great!

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