padding-bottom property

Definition and Usage

The padding-bottom CSS property of an element sets the height of the padding area at the bottom of an element. The padding area is the space between the content of the element and it’s border. Contrary to margin-bottom values, negative values of padding-bottom are invalid.

• Initial0
• Applies toall elements except table-row-group, table-header-group, table-footer-group, table-row, table-column-group and table-column
• Inheritedno
• Percentagesrefer to the width of the containing block
• Mediavisual
• Computed Valuethe percentage as specified or the absolute length
• Animatableyes, as a length
• Canonical orderthe unique non-ambiguous order defined by the formal grammar

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Syntax

Formal syntax: <length> | <percentage>

padding-bottom: 0.5em;
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-bottom: 2cm;
padding-bottom: 10%
padding-bottom: inherit

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Values

<length>

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

<percentage>

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

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Examples

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Compatibility

Desktop browsers

Mobile browsers