CSS | padding-top Property

Last Updated : 10 Jan, 2019

Padding is the space between its content and border. The padding-top property in CSS is used to set the width of the padding area on the top of an element.

Syntax:

padding-top: length|percentage|initial|inherit;

Property Values:

length: This mode is used to specify the size of padding as a fixed value. The size can be set in form of px, cm etc. The default value is 0. It must be non-negative.

Syntax:

padding-top: length;

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>  
<html>  
    <head>  
        <title>  
            padding-top Property  
        </title>  
          
        <style>  
            .geek {  
                padding-top: 100px;  
                width:50%;  
                font-size:18px;  
                border: 1px solid black; 
            }  
        </style>  
    </head>  
      
    <body>  
        <h2>  
            padding-top Property  
        </h2>  
          
        <!-- padding property used here -->
        <p class = "geek">  
            This paragraph has a padding-top: 100px;  
        </p>  
    </body>  
</html>                      

Output:

percentage: This mode is used to set the top padding in percentage of the width of the element. It must be non-negative.

Syntax:

padding-top: percentage (%)

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>  
<html>  
    <head>  
        <title>  
            padding-top Property  
        </title>  
          
        <style>  
            .geek {  
                padding-top: 10%;  
                width:50%;  
                font-size:18px;  
                border: 1px solid black; 
            }  
        </style>  
    </head>  
      
    <body>  
        <h2>  
            padding-top Property  
        </h2>  
          
        <!-- padding property used here -->
        <p class = "geek">  
            This paragraph has a padding-top: 10%;  
        </p>  
    </body>  
</html>                      

Output:

initial: It is used to set padding-top property to its default value.

Syntax:

padding-top: initial;

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>  
<html>  
    <head>  
        <title>  
            padding-top Property  
        </title>  
          
        <style>  
            .geek {  
                padding-top: initial;  
                width:50%;  
                font-size:18px;  
                border: 1px solid black; 
            }  
        </style>  
    </head>  
      
    <body>  
        <h2>  
            padding-top Property  
        </h2>  
          
        <!-- padding property used here -->
        <p class = "geek">  
            This paragraph has a padding-top: initial;  
        </p>  
    </body>  
</html>                      

Output:

inherit: It is used to inherit padding-top property from its parent element.

Supported Browsers: The browser supported by padding-top property are listed below:

Google Chrome 1.0
Internet Explorer 4.0
Firefox 1.0
Safari 1.0
Opera 3.5

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