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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Style the Portfolio

Forest Forest
Forest Forest
529 Points
Posted by Forest Forest
Forest Forest
529 Points

How to control the padding above / under the paragraph of the list?

I am watching the "Style the Portfolio" session of " How to make a website", and I saw the teacher is managing the padding of the paragraph under the image by styling #gallery l a p {}, in there, setting padding as 5%. I am just wondering the 5% seems to give space before the text, however, how to control the padding above and under the texts? I feel like even without doing anything, there is already some space above / behind the texts.

frontend
frontend
15,619 Points

Remember that the box-model works clockwise(top,right,bottom,left). Try playing around with padding to get your desired outcome. For a good reference on how the box-model works, check out this link

1 Answer

Mark Pryce
Mark Pryce
8,804 Points
Mark Pryce
Mark Pryce
8,804 Points

When defining a padding rule you can use multiple ways remember the values always work clockwise starting from the top.

h1 {
   padding: 5%; 

/* defined for all sides, top, right, bottom & left */
}

h1 {
   padding: 5% 10%;

/* 5% = top and bottom 10% = right and left */
}

h1 {
   padding: 5% 10% 3%;

/* 5% applies to top side, 10% applies to left and right, 3% applies to the bottom */
}

h1 {
   padding: 1% 2% 3% 4%;

/* 1% = top,   2% = right,   3% = bottom, 4% = left*/
}

Hope this clears it up a bit, happy coding!

Edit: As frontend mentioned the best way to see it is to fiddle around with the values, also don't mistake padding for margin they are different! ;)