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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Center the Wrapper

Martina Vonkomerova
Martina Vonkomerova
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Posted by Martina Vonkomerova
Martina Vonkomerova
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CSS - padding

What does padding do ?

2 Answers

Vitor Freitas
Vitor Freitas
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Vitor Freitas
Vitor Freitas
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Defines the spacing between the content of the element and its border.

padding

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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Unsubscribed User
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As Vitor has stated, padding adds spacing between the content (img, h1, h2, p, etc) and its border.

When I first started learning about CSS, I often confused margin and padding. The way I was able to understand it was to think about padding in a literal sense e.g. "padding the element" or, in other words, adding more "stuff" to the element. Margin, on the other hand, can be thought of "pushing/pulling elements apart/closer" (positive/negative margin) to one other.

Check out this CodePen example I made up for you.

Hope this helps! :)

-Stu