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paddingLeft style property

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Specifies or returns the space between an element's left border and its contents.

With the paddingLeft property you can specify the distance between the left borderLeft and the element's content.

Syntax:

object.paddingLeft;

You can find the related objects in the Supported by objects section below.

This property is read/write.

CSS page for this property: padding-left

Possible values:

The type of this property is string.

One of the following values:

inherit

Takes the value of this property from the computed style of the parent element.

space in non-negative length

The space in length units. For the supported length units, see the length page.

space in non-negative percentage

The space is the specified percentage of the width of the parent element.

Default: 0.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the padding-left, border and margin properties:

<head>
    <style>
        .outer {
            border: 1px solid #ffffff;
            background-color: #ffb08a;
        }
        .middle {
            margin: 20px;
            padding-left: 20px;
            border: 10px solid #000000;
            background-color: #ceb379;
        }
        .inner {
            height: 10px;
            border: 1px solid #ffffff;
            background-color: #ffffff;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <table cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="10px">
        <tr>
            <td style="background-color: #ffb08a;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>margin</td>
            <td style="background-color: #000000;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>border</td>
            <td style="background-color: #ceb379;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>padding</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    
    <div class="outer">
        <div class="middle">
            <div class="inner"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>

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Example HTML code 2:

This example illustrates the use of the paddingLeft property in JavaScript:

<head>
    <style>
        .outer {
            border: 1px solid #ffffff;
            background-color: #ffb08a;
        }
        .middle {
            margin: 20px;
            padding-left: 20px;
            border: 10px solid #000000;
            background-color: #ceb379;
        }
        .inner {
            height: 10px;
            border: 1px solid #ffffff;
            background-color: #ffffff;
        }
    </style>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function ChangePaddingLeft () {
            var middleDiv = document.getElementById ("middleDiv");
            var paddingInput = document.getElementById ("paddingInput");

            middleDiv.style.paddingLeft = paddingInput.value + "px";
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <table cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="10px">
        <tr>
            <td style="background-color: #ffb08a;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>margin</td>
            <td style="background-color: #000000;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>border</td>
            <td style="background-color: #ceb379;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>padding</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    <div class="outer">
        <div id="middleDiv" class="middle">
            <div class="inner"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <br />
    paddingLeft: 
    <input id="paddingInput" type="text" value="40" size="2" /> 
    <button onclick="ChangePaddingLeft ();">Change</button>
</body>