.tab-pane has no border or padding

[alvipeo]

So, when using tabs active tab pane should have a border and padding to look like .. normal.

Here's what seems like right to me:

.tab-pane.active {
    border: 1px solid $nav-tabs-border-color;
    border-top: none;
    padding: $grid-gutter-width / 2;
}

[cvrebert]

Seems like a matter of taste to me. I can't seem to recall or find any other requests/complaints for such styling.
You can always use a card in the tab pane or around the entire tabs widget to achieve a similar result.
CC: @mdo

[alvipeo]

I mean isn't this better:

than this?

Especially when the tab contains text (or at least starts with text).

[alvipeo]

Is this possible with cards?

[cvrebert]

Almost, if you add .card.card-block to .tab-content, but the border still requires extra tweaking.

[cvrebert]

Especially when the tab contains text (or at least starts with text).

Yeah, I agree at least some padding would be nice in that case, but implementing that properly could be fiddly.

[alvipeo]

Doing it with cards seems like tuning css with javascript :)

[RyanZim]

If this is added, it should be entirely opt-in.

Perhaps we could could add a class that would be placed on .tab-content and use a selector like .tab-pane-outline .active for the styling.

[alvipeo]

ok, opt-in is fine. It just should be there in some way.

[mdo]

Closing as a won't fix. There are easy padding utilities now that can accomplish all the spacing, and borders are a preference that don't need to be set initially IMO.