padding-bottom

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-bottomCSS property sets the height of the padding area on the bottom of an element.

Try it

padding-bottom: 1em;

padding-bottom: 10%;

padding-bottom: 20px;

padding-bottom: 1ch;

padding-bottom: 0;

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

The effect of the CSS padding-bottom property on the element box

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

Syntax

css

/* <length> values */ padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0; padding-bottom: 2cm; /* <percentage> value */ padding-bottom: 10%; /* Global values */ padding-bottom: inherit; padding-bottom: initial; padding-bottom: revert; padding-bottom: revert-layer; padding-bottom: unset;

The padding-bottom 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 inline size (width in a horizontal language, defined by writing-mode) 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

padding-bottom = 
<length-percentage [0,∞]>

<length-percentage> = 
<length>|
<percentage>

Examples

Setting padding bottom with pixels and percentages

css

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

Specifications

Specification
CSS Box Model Module Level 3 # padding-physical