CSS padding

CSS padding is a shorthand property that defines the space between an element's border and its content, i.e., the padding on all four sides.

padding

When an element's padding is cleared, the released area will be filled with the element's background color.

Using the padding property alone can change the padding on all four sides.

Possible Values

Padding - Individual Side Padding Properties

In CSS, it can specify different padding for different sides:

Example

• Top padding is 25px
• Right padding is 50px
• Bottom padding is 25px
• Left padding is 50px

Padding - Shorthand Property

To shorten the code, it can specify all the padding properties in one attribute.

This is called a shorthand property. The shorthand property for all padding properties is padding:

Example

padding: 25px 50px;

The padding property can have from one to four values.

padding: 25px 50px 75px 100px;

• Top padding is 25px
• Right padding is 50px
• Bottom padding is 75px
• Left padding is 100px

padding: 25px 50px 75px;

• Top padding is 25px
• Left and right padding is 50px
• Bottom padding is 75px

padding: 25px 50px;

• Top and bottom padding is 25px
• Left and right padding is 50px

padding: 25px;

• All four paddings are 25px

More Examples

All padding properties in one declaration

Setting left padding

Setting right padding

Setting top padding

Setting bottom padding

All CSS Padding Properties