How do I remove white space above itemize command in beamer using enumitem

Question

I am new to \LaTeX. I am trying to use solution give on How to remove the whitespace BEFORE itemize/enumerate? to remove vertical space before itemize environment using enumitem and beamer. But I don't get the desired result. Is there a solution to this problem?

Welcome to TeX.SX! You may have a look on our starter guide. Maybe this will help: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/114280/how-to-reduce-vertical-space-itemize-environment-inside-table — Mario S. E., May 24 '13 at 09:43
In my case (beamer with some customization) I also needed in Gonzalo Medina's answer: \setlength\parskip{0pt} (I don't have enough rep to comment.) — gordon, Aug 15 '23 at 14:24

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '13 at 13:29

It's not a good idea to use the enumitem package with beamer since beamer has its own ways of dealing with the standard list-like environments. Just by loading enumitem when using beamer you loose the special beamer formatting and the overlay-awareness of the list-like components.

To suppress the spacing, you can redefine itemize as implemented by beamer in the file beamerbaselocalstructure.sty. In the following example I show a possible modification, setting \topsep, \partopsep and \itemsep to 0pt (adjust these values according to your needs); the modified lines are signaled with %NEW:

\documentclass{beamer}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\itemize}[1][]{%
  \beamer@ifempty{#1}{}{\def\beamer@defaultospec{#1}}%
  \ifnum \@itemdepth >2\relax\@toodeep\else
    \advance\@itemdepth\@ne
    \beamer@computepref\@itemdepth% sets \beameritemnestingprefix
    \usebeamerfont{itemize/enumerate \beameritemnestingprefix body}%
    \usebeamercolor[fg]{itemize/enumerate \beameritemnestingprefix body}%
    \usebeamertemplate{itemize/enumerate \beameritemnestingprefix body begin}%
    \list
      {\usebeamertemplate{itemize \beameritemnestingprefix item}}
      {%
        \setlength\topsep{0pt}%NEW
        \setlength\partopsep{0pt}%NEW
        \setlength\itemsep{0pt}%NEW
        \def\makelabel##1{%
          {%
            \hss\llap{{%
                \usebeamerfont*{itemize \beameritemnestingprefix item}%
                \usebeamercolor[fg]{itemize \beameritemnestingprefix item}##1}}%
          }%
        }%
      }
  \fi%
  \beamer@cramped%
  \raggedright%
  \beamer@firstlineitemizeunskip%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
Some text
\begin{itemize}
\setlength\topsep{0pt}
\setlength\partopsep{0pt}
  \item Item 1
  \item Item 2
  \item Item 3
\end{itemize}
Some text
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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Just for comparison, the same list without the modifications:

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Is there a way of doing this locally? Say I want to do this for one and only one list? — user1729, Feb 26 '14 at 12:49
@user1729 Sure. The redefinition can be made inside a group to keep its effect local. Comments are not the place to give code, so if you want to, feel free to open a nee question. — Gonzalo Medina, Feb 26 '14 at 18:33
Works like a charm. I don't know much of the code, but just wonder why we need so much code to adjust the padding/margin? Also can we limit the scope to a single frame? — Gqqnbig, Nov 26 '20 at 06:20
\setlength\topsep{0pt} inside itemize environment removed the space before, without importing enuitem package which creates conflict with beamer — younes zeboudj, Mar 28 '21 at 14:14

score -2 · Answer 2 · answered May 24 '13 at 09:55

As described in the enumitem documentation, you have two parameters to play with regarding vertical top space: topsep and partopsep.

So, for example, writing this:

\begin{enumerate}[topsep={0pt},partopsep={0pt}]
\item First item
\item Second item
\end{enumerate}

Will produce something like this:

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Of course, if you want to play with the separation between items, you can do so by setting itemsep, again, as described in the enumitem documentation (available at the link mentioned above).

But it doesn't work with beamer – Pranav M May 27 '13 at 05:12 — Pranav M, May 27 '13 at 05:12

How do I remove white space above itemize command in beamer using enumitem

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