Name
padding — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a
Synopsis
Read/Write
A shortcut property that can set the padding widths of up to four edges of an element with one statement. Padding is space that extends around the content box of an element up to but not including any border that may be specified for the element. Padding picks up the background image or color of its element. As you add padding to an element, you increase the size of the visible rectangle of the element without affecting the content block size. You may supply one to four space-delimited padding values. The number of values determines which sides receive the assigned padding.
Example
document.all.logoWrapper.style.padding = "3px 5px"
Value
This property accepts one, two, three, or four space-delimited values
inside one string, depending on how many and which edges you want to
pad. See the padding attribute listing in Chapter 10 for complete details on how the number of
values affects this property. Values for padding widths can be
lengths, percentages of the next outermost element size, or the
auto constant.
Default
0
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