CSS padding-bottom Property

Last Updated : 09 Aug, 2019

An element’s padding is the space between its content and its border. The padding-bottom CSS property is used to set the height of the padding area on the bottom of an element.

Syntax:

padding-bottom: length|percentage;

Property values:

length: This value is used to specify the size of padding as a fixed value. The default value is 0. It must be non-negative.

Syntax:

padding-bottom: length;

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>CSS padding-bottom Property</title>
        <style>
            p.geek {
            padding-bottom: 35px;
            color: white;
            background: green;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
      
    <body style = "text-align: center;">
          
        <h1 style = "color: green;">GeeksforGeeks</h1>
          
        <h2>padding-bottom Property</h2>
          
        <!-- Below paragraph element has a 
            padding-bottom of 35px -->
        <p class="geek">
            This paragraph has a padding-bottom: 35px;
        </p>
          
    </body>
</html>                    

Output:
paddingbottom

percentage: This type of value is used to specify the bottom padding in percent of the width of the element. It must be non-negative.

Syntax:

padding-bottom: percentage;

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>CSS padding-bottom Property</title>
          
        <style>
            p.geek {
            padding-bottom: 10%;
            color: white;
            background: green;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
      
    <body style = "text-align: center;">
          
        <h1 style = "color: green;">GeeksforGeeks</h1>
          
        <h2>padding-bottom Property</h2>
          
        <!-- Below Paragraph element has a 
            padding-bottom of 10% -->
        <p class="geek">
            This paragraph has a padding-bottom: 10%;
        </p>
    </body>
</html>                                        