Trim whitespace between fields in lightning:recordEditForm with slds-form_horizontal deprecated?

Question

I slimmed down my code to better illustrate the issue. I have a simple lightning:recordEditForm with lightning:inputField(s) inside. By default these fields pad themselves with a lot of vertical whitespace. The solution I had been using was to wrap them using "slds-form_horizontal" so that they stack on top of one another. The problem is that according to the design docs this was deprecated. I tried to use the newer "slds-form-element_horizontal" but the behavior was not the same.

What can I use in place of slds-form_horizontal to better trim vertical whitespace for the fields in my component?

Here is a small sample of my code:

<div class="slds-form_horizontal">
 <lightning:recordEditForm  objectApiName="Account">
  <lightning:inputField fieldName="Name"/>
  <lightning:inputField fieldName="CurrencyIsoCode"/>
  <lightning:inputField fieldName="AccountNumber"/>                            
  <lightning:inputField fieldName="OwnerId"/>                                            
 </lightning:recordEditForm>
</div>

On the left I use slds-form_horizontal, on the right I use density="compact"

Answer 1

Just want to circle back and say that I figured out the issue. This component was part of a Flow in salesforce that was embedded into another Lightning Component. That component had the following CSS:

.THIS .slds-form-element{
    padding-top: .70vh;
    padding-bottom: .70vh;
}

This was overriding density="compact" and once removed the result was expected. Hopefully this will help someone reading down the road.