How to avoid duplicate divs.row when using Sitecore placeholders and the SXA Column splitter component?

When using Sitecore's placeholder in combination with the SXA Column-splitter, multiple <div class="row"> are then added/rendered. This causes unintended margins and paddings in our layout.

Questions:

Is there a way to avoid this?
Is it not the intend to use Sitecore's Column-splitter component inside of a placeholder?
Is there some attributes I can set on the Placeholder that will allow me to not render the <div class="row"> it itself generates?

In addition, I tried changing the Grid Setup Settings in Sitecore but only option I found was to remove the generation of <div class="row" globally for the whole grid and all of the Placeholders and SXA components. This is not what I want.

Here is the code I use to make the placeholder:

@Html.Sitecore().Placeholder("SomePlaceholder")

When I add Sitecore's SXA Column-splitter inside of it, I get an additional <div class="row"> (as seen in screenshot of browser console below) which causes the problem.

I would expect that there would be only one <div class="row"> with the inherited margin and padding set by the grid. (In my case the Bootstrap 4 Grid, assigned in Sitecore's Grid Setup for our SXA Theme)

Solution

You can patch the config by specifying certain placeholders that you want to exclude from generating the row.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
  <sitecore>
    <experienceAccelerator>
      <grid>
        <placeholderWrapper>
            <excludedPlaceholders>
                <placeholder patch:after="body-bottom">utility-links</placeholder>
                <placeholder patch:after="utility-links">login-link</placeholder>
            </excludedPlaceholders>
        </placeholderWrapper>
      </grid>
    </experienceAccelerator>
  </sitecore>
</configuration>

For example in a view we use:

@Html.Sitecore().Placeholder("utility-links")

and

@Html.Sitecore().Placeholder("login-link")

Which we did not want in a new row.