Content Padding when using Elements

Hello my pages that are using Elements for layout cause prevent the content padding from working under customization. The blog pages respond accordingly. Your documentation says:

"If you have content paddings set in the customizer but it’s not working/showing no paddings at all, the reason is likely that the Content Container options are being applied through the Layout Metabox or a Layout Element."

So how does one work around this? Do I just have to add space manually via the builder or css?

Thanks