padding-inline

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

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

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

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

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

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

Syntax

Values

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

Formal syntax

<'padding-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;
  padding-inline: 20px 40px;
  background-color: #c8c800;
}

Specification

Browser compatibility

See also

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