padding-right - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets 编辑

The padding-right CSS property sets the width of the padding area on the right of an element.

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An element's padding area is the space between its content and its border.

Note: The padding property can be used to set paddings on all four sides of an element with a single declaration.

Syntax

/* <length> values */
padding-right: 0.5em;
padding-right: 0;
padding-right: 2cm;

/* <percentage> value */
padding-right: 10%;

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

The padding-right property is specified as a single value chosen from the list below. Unlike margins, negative values are not allowed for padding.

Values

<length>

The size of the padding as a fixed value. Must be nonnegative.

<percentage>

The size of the padding as a percentage, relative to the width of the containing block. Must be nonnegative.

Formal definition

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. It also applies to ::first-letter and ::first-line.
Inherited	no
Percentages	refer to the width of the containing block
Computed value	the percentage as specified or the absolute length
Animation type	a length

Formal syntax

<length> | <percentage>

Examples

Setting right padding using pixels and percentages

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

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
CSS Basic Box Model The definition of 'padding-right' in that specification.	Working Draft	No change.
CSS Level 2 (Revision 1) The definition of 'padding-right' in that specification.	Recommendation	No change.
CSS Level 1 The definition of 'padding-right' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial definition.

Browser compatibility

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See also

• Introduction to the CSS basic box model
• padding-top, padding-bottom, padding-left and the padding shorthand
• The mapped logical properties: padding-block-start, padding-block-end, padding-inline-start, and padding-inline-end and the shorthands padding-block and padding-inline