CSS padding-top Property

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.
percentage: This mode is used to set the top padding in percentage of the width of the element. It must be non-negative.
initial: It is used to set the padding-top property to its default value.
inherit: It is used to inherit the padding-top property from its parent element.

Example: In this example, we are using padding-top: length; property.

html

<!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:

Example: In this example, we are using the padding-top: percentage (%) property.

html

<!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:

Example: In this example, we use padding-top: initial; property.

html

<!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>