How to position two tcolorboxes next to each other on the same line and adjust the distance between them? [duplicate]

Question

I have the following situation, where I have produced two boxes with text inside using the package tcolorbox :

 \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[most]{tcolorbox} \begin{document} \begin{tcolorbox}[colback=black!8! white,colframe=black, width=3cm] \centering Males \end{tcolorbox} \begin{tcolorbox}[colback=black!8! white,colframe=black, width=3cm] \centering Females \end{tcolorbox} \end{document}

However, with this code both boxes appear in different lines, and I would like to have them on the same line and to be able to adjust the distance between them using \hspace*{} .

How can this be done, preferably in a simple way?

Edit: the answers I received here are way more helpful, short and elegant than those provided in the related question that caused the close votes. For this reason, I don't believe the question should be closed.

Answer 1

You can use the before and after options:

 \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tcolorbox} \begin{document} \begin{tcolorbox}[colback=black!8,width=3cm,halign=center,after=\hspace{1cm}] Males \end{tcolorbox} \begin{tcolorbox}[colback=black!8, width=3cm,halign=center,before=] Females \end{tcolorbox} \end{document}

Answer 2

By adopting the example from the documentation p.14.

 \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{tcolorbox} \usepackage{showframe} \begin{document} \tcbset{colback=black!8! white,colframe=black, width=3cm,nobeforeafter} \noindent\begin{tcbox} {Males} \end{tcbox}% \hspace{1cm}\begin{tcbox} {Females} \end{tcbox} \end{document}