CSS Padding Code Tutorials

How to set the all padding properties in one declaration

The code below shows you how to set all padding properties in one declaration in CSS.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>Web Development Tutorials.com</title>

<style type="text/css">
p.one
{
padding: 1.5cm;
border-style: solid;
}
p.two
{
padding: .5cm 2.5cm;
border-style: solid;
}
</style>

</head>
<body>
<p class="one">
This paragraph has a padding of 1cm on each side. This paragraph has a padding of 1cm on each side. This paragraph has a padding of 1cm on each side. This paragraph has a padding of 1cm on each side.
</p>
<p class="two">
This paragraph has a top and bottom padding of 0.5 and left and right padding of 2cm. This paragraph has a top and bottom padding of 0.5 and left and right padding of 2cm. This paragraph has a top and bottom padding of 0.5 and left and right padding of 2cm.
</p>
</body>
</html>

The code above creates the paragraphs below.

This paragraph has a padding of 1cm on each side. This paragraph has a padding of 1cm on each side. This paragraph has a padding of 1cm on each side. This paragraph has a padding of 1cm on each side.

This paragraph has a top and bottom padding of 0.5 and left and right padding of 2cm. This paragraph has a top and bottom padding of 0.5 and left and right padding of 2cm. This paragraph has a top and bottom padding of 0.5 and left and right padding of 2cm.

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