padding-block - CSS | MDN (original) (raw)

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padding-block: 10px 20px;
writing-mode: horizontal-tb;

padding-block: 20px 40px;
writing-mode: vertical-rl;

padding-block: 5% 10%;
writing-mode: horizontal-tb;

padding-block: 2em 4em;
writing-mode: vertical-lr;

<section id="default-example">
  <div class="transition-all" id="example-element">
    <div class="box">
      Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the
      western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

#example-element {
  border: 10px solid #ffc129;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-align: left;
}

.box {
  border: dashed 1px;
  unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
}

Constituent properties

This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:

Syntax

/* <length> values */
padding-block: 10px 20px; /* An absolute length */
padding-block: 1em 2em; /* relative to the text size */
padding-block: 10px; /* sets both start and end values */

/* <percentage> values */
padding-block: 5% 2%; /* relative to the nearest block container's width */

/* Global values */
padding-block: inherit;
padding-block: initial;
padding-block: revert;
padding-block: revert-layer;
padding-block: unset;

The padding-block property may be specified with one or two values. If one value is given, it is used as the value for both padding-block-start and padding-block-end. If two values are given, the first is used for padding-block-start and the second for padding-block-end.

Values

The padding-block property takes the same values as the padding-left property.

Description

The padding values specified by padding-block can be equivalent to the padding-top and padding-bottom properties or the padding-right and padding-left properties, depending on the values defined for writing-mode, direction, and text-orientation.

Formal definition

Initial value	as each of the properties of the shorthand:padding-block-start: 0padding-block-end: 0
Applies to	all elements, except table-row-group, table-header-group, table-footer-group, table-row, table-column-group and table-column
Inherited	no
Percentages	logical-width of containing block
Computed value	as each of the properties of the shorthand:padding-block-start: as padding-block-end: as
Animation type	a length

Formal syntax

padding-block =
<'padding-top'>{1,2}

=
<length-percentage [0,∞]>

=
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Examples

Setting block padding for vertical text

HTML

<div>
  <p class="exampleText">Example text</p>
</div>

CSS

div {
  background-color: yellow;
  width: 120px;
  height: 120px;
}

.exampleText {
  writing-mode: vertical-rl;
  padding-block: 20px 40px;
  background-color: #c8c800;
}

Result

Specifications

Specification
CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1 # propdef-padding-block