margin-inline

The margin-inline CSS property defines the logical inline start and end margins of an element, which maps to physical margins depending on the element's writing mode, directionality, and text orientation.

/* <length> values */
margin-inline: 10px 20px;  /* An absolute length */
margin-inline: 1em 2em;    /* relative to the text size */
margin-inline: 5% 2%;      /* relative to the nearest block container's width */
margin-inline: 10px;       /* sets both start and end values */

/* Keyword values */
margin-inline: auto;

/* Global values */
margin-inline: inherit;
margin-inline: initial;
margin-inline: unset;

These values corresponds to the margin-top and  margin-bottom, or  margin-right, and margin-left property depending on the values defined for writing-mode, direction, and text-orientation.

The values can be set individually as margin-inline-start and margin-inline-end. The block direction property is margin-block which sets margin-block-start, and margin-block-end.

Syntax

Values

The margin-inline property takes the same values as the margin-left property.

Formal syntax

<'margin-left'>{1,2}

Example

HTML Content

<div>
  <p class="exampleText">Example text</p>
</div>

CSS Content

div {
  background-color: yellow;
  width: 120px;
  height: 120px;
}

.exampleText {
  writing-mode: vertical-rl;
  margin-inline: 20px 40px;
  background-color: #c8c800;
}

Specification

Browser compatibility

See also

• The mapped physical properties: margin-top, margin-right, margin-bottom, and margin-left
• writing-mode, direction, text-orientation