{% } %}
diff --git a/src/scss/components/_button-group.scss b/src/scss/components/_button-group.scss
index bcc15b13f..da3064028 100644
--- a/src/scss/components/_button-group.scss
+++ b/src/scss/components/_button-group.scss
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
.utrecht-button-group {
// A button group used in an edit grid item
@include bem.modifier('openforms-editgrid') {
+ // TODO: move to design tokens
+ --utrecht-button-group-margin-block-start: 12px;
+ // there needs to be some vertical spacing between the body and button row
+ --utrecht-space-around: 1;
+
// there currently does not exist a design token in the upstream component, and
// the alignment is also contextual, so we opt for an open-forms extension that
// can be tweaked with proprietary design tokens.