Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

Name

padding-top

Synopsis

This property sets the width of the top padding for an element. Top padding set on inline nonreplaced elements does not affect line-height calculations; therefore, such an element with both top padding and a background may visibly extend into other lines and potentially overlap other content. Negative padding values are not permitted.

Values:

<length> | <percentage> | inherit

Initial value:

0

Applies to:

all elements

Inherited:

no

Percentages:

refer to the width of the containing block

Computed value:

for percentage values, as specified; for length values, the absolute length

Note:

padding can never be negative