padding-bottom Attribute | paddingBottom Property

Gets or sets the amount of space to insert between the bottom border of the object and the content.

Syntax

CSS	{ padding-bottom : sPadding }
Scripting	[ sPadding = ] object.style.paddingBottom

Possible Values

sPadding

String that specifies or receives one of the following values. length Floating-point number, followed by an absolute units designator (cm, mm, in, pt, or pc) or a relative units designator (em, ex, or px). For more information about the supported length units, see CSS Length Units Reference. percentage Integer, followed by a percent sign (%). The value is a percentage of the width of the parent object.

The property is read/write for all objects except the following, for which it is read-only: currentStyle. The property has a default value of 0 for all objects with the following exceptions:

TD	1
TH	1

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attribute is not inherited.

DHTML expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s). As of Internet Explorer 8, expressions are supported in IE7 Standards mode and IE5 (Quirks) mode only. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties and Defining Document Compatibility.

Remarks

As of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, this property applies to inline elements. With earlier versions of Windows Internet Explorer, inline elements must have an absolute  position or layout to use this property. Element layout is set by providing a value for the height property or the width property.

Negative values are not allowed.

Examples

The following examples use the padding-bottom attribute and the paddingBottom property to change the padding of the object.

This example uses td as a selector in an embedded style sheet to set the bottom padding for all table cells to 1 centimeter.

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<STYLE>
    TD { padding-bottom:1cm }
</STYLE>

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/padding-bottom.htm

This example uses inline scripting to set the cell's bottom padding to 1 centimeter when an onmouseover event occurs.

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<TD onmouseover="this.style.paddingBottom='1cm'"
    onmouseout="this.style.paddingBottom=''">
    <IMG src="sphere.jpg">
</TD>

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/paddingBottom.htm

Standards Information

This property is defined in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Level 1 (CSS1).

Applies To

A, ABBR, ACRONYM, ADDRESS, APPLET, B, BDO, BIG, BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, BUTTON, CAPTION, CENTER, CITE, CODE, COL, COLGROUP, CSSStyleDeclaration, currentStyle, CUSTOM, DD, defaults, DEL, DFN, DIR, DIV, DL, DT, EM, EMBED, FIELDSET, FONT, FORM, FRAME, hn, HR, I, IMG, INPUT type=button, INPUT type=checkbox, INPUT type=file, INPUT type=image, INPUT type=password, INPUT type=radio, INPUT type=reset, INPUT type=submit, INPUT type=text, INS, KBD, LABEL, LEGEND, LI, LISTING, MARQUEE, MENU, nextID, NOBR, OBJECT, OL, P, PLAINTEXT, PRE, Q, RT, RUBY, runtimeStyle, S, SAMP, SELECT, SMALL, SPAN, STRIKE, STRONG, style, SUB, SUP, TD, TEXTAREA, TH, TT, U, UL, VAR, XMP, CSSCurrentStyleDeclaration Constructor, CSSRuleStyleDeclaration Constructor, CSSStyleDeclaration Constructor

See Also

CSS Enhancements in Internet Explorer 6