padding-right

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

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

Try it

padding-right: 1.5em;
padding-right: 10%;
padding-right: 20px;
padding-right: 1ch;
padding-right: 0;
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#example-element {
  border: 10px solid #ffc129;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-align: left;
}

.box {
  border: dashed 1px;
}

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

css
/*  values */
padding-right: 0.5em;
padding-right: 0;
padding-right: 2cm;

/*  value */
padding-right: 10%;

/* Global values */
padding-right: inherit;
padding-right: initial;
padding-right: revert;
padding-right: revert-layer;
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

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

The size of the padding as a percentage, relative to the inline size (width in a horizontal language, defined by writing-mode) of the containing block. Must be nonnegative.

Formal definition

Initial value0
Applies toall 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.
Inheritedno
Percentagesrefer to the width of the containing block
Computed valuethe percentage as specified or the absolute length
Animation typea length

Formal syntax

Examples

Setting right padding using pixels and percentages

css
.content {
  padding-right: 5%;
}
.side-box {
  padding-right: 10px;
}

Specifications

Specification
CSS Box Model Module Level 3
# padding-physical

Browser compatibility

See also