The padding-block-start CSS property defines the logical block start padding of an element, which maps to a physical padding depending on the element's writing mode, directionality, and text orientation.
The padding-block-start CSS property defines the logical block start padding of an element, which maps to a physical padding depending on the element's writing mode, directionality, and text orientation.
/* <length> values */ padding-block-start: 10px; /* An absolute length */ padding-block-start: 1em; /* A length relative to the text size */ /* <percentage> value */ padding-block-start: 5%; /* A padding relative to the block container's width */ /* Global values */ padding-block-start: inherit; padding-block-start: initial; padding-block-start: revert; padding-block-start: revert-layer; padding-block-start: unset;
<length>The size of the padding as a fixed value. Must be nonnegative.
<percentage>The size of the padding as a percentage, relative to the inline-size (width in a horizontal language) of the containing block. Must be nonnegative.
The padding-block-start property is defined in the specification as taking the same values as the padding-top property. However, the physical property it maps to depends on the values set for writing-mode, direction, and text-orientation. Therefore, it could map to padding-bottom, padding-right, or padding-left.
It relates to padding-block-end, padding-inline-start, and padding-inline-end, which define the other paddings of the element.
| Initial value | 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 <length>
|
| Animation type | a length |
padding-block-start =
<'padding-top'>
<div> <p class="exampleText">Example text</p> </div>
div { background-color: yellow; width: 120px; height: 120px; } .exampleText { writing-mode: vertical-lr; padding-block-start: 20px; background-color: #c8c800; }
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
padding-block-start |
87 | 87 | 41 | No | 73 | 12.1 | 87 | 87 | 41 | 62 | 12.2 | 14.0 |
padding-top, padding-right, padding-bottom, and padding-left
writing-mode, direction, text-orientation
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/padding-block-start