"Space before" has no effect at all

I’m trying to create the title page that has several element on it i.e the book title, the author, date published etc.

So first thing right out of the gate I create a style for the title page title and maybe this is where I’m going wrong I set a text box that is full size of the page, to the margins. My title style has the font size aligned center with a “Space Before” set to about 20 or 30 px but in fact no matter what I set it to it remains glued to the top of the Text box 20, 30, 220px nothing happens.

So what’s the secret here?