CSS - padding-bottom Property

Description

The padding-bottom property is used to set the padding space on the bottom side of an element's content box.

Example

Here is an example where all the different values that can be passed to the padding-bottom property:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>CSS - Padding - padding-bottom</title>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    </head>
    <body>
        <h3>padding-bottom property</h3>
        <div>
            <p style="padding-bottom: 50px; border: 1px solid #0b0b0b;">This element has a bottom padding of 150px.</p>
            <p style="padding-bottom: 10%; border: 1px solid #0b0b0b;">This element has a bottom padding of 10%.</p>
            <p style="padding-bottom: 3em; border: 1px solid #0b0b0b;">This element has a bottom padding of 3em.</p>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

inherit - when you want the bottom padding of a child element to match the bottom padding of its parent element, use the property inherit.

Note: inherit value can be used only on child elements and not on parent element.

Here is an example where the padding-bottom of a child element is inherited from the parent element−

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>CSS - Padding - padding-bottom</title>
      <meta charset="UTF-8">
      <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
      <style>
         .container {
            padding: 25px;
            border: 1px solid #4CAF50;
         	}
         .box {
            padding-bottom: inherit;
			border: 1px solid #4CAF50;
         	}
      </style>
   </head>
   <body>
      <h4>padding-bottom property - inherit</h4>
        <div class="container">
            <div class="box">
                <p>The padding is 25px for parent element.</p>
                <p class="example">A child element where the bottom padding is inherited from the parent (p) and is 25px.</p>
            </div>
        </div>

   </body>
</html>
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