padding-top

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Summary

The padding-top CSS property of an element sets the padding space required on the top of an element. The padding area is the space between the content of the element and its border. Contrary to margin-top values, negative values of padding-top are invalid.

• Initial value 0
• Applies to all elements except table-row-group, table-header-group, table-footer-group, table-row, table-column-group and table-column
• Inherited no
• Percentages refer to the width of the containing block
• Media visual
• Computed value the percentage as specified or the absolute length
• Animatable yes, as a length
• Canonical order the unique non-ambiguous order defined by the formal grammar

Syntax

Formal syntax: <length> | <percentage>

padding-top: 0.5em;
padding-top: 0;
padding-top: 2cm;
padding-top: 10%

padding-top: inherit

Values

<length>

Specifies a positive fixed width. See <length> for details.

<percentage>

A percentage with respect to the width of the containing block.

Examples

.content { padding-top: 5%; }
.sidebox { padding-top: 10px; } 

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• Padding-related properties: padding, padding-top, padding-right, padding-bottom, padding-left, border, margin