padding-block

The padding-block CSS shorthand property defines the logical block start and end padding of an element, which maps to physical padding properties depending on the element's writing mode, directionality, and text orientation.

css

padding-block: 10px 20px;
writing-mode: horizontal-tb;

css

padding-block: 20px 40px;
writing-mode: vertical-rl;

css

padding-block: 5% 10%;
writing-mode: horizontal-tb;

css

padding-block: 2em 4em;
writing-mode: vertical-lr;

html

<section id="default-example">
  <div class="transition-all" id="example-element">
    <div class="box">
      Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the
      western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

css

#example-element {
  border: 10px solid #ffc129;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-align: left;
}

.box {
  border: dashed 1px;
  unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
}

Constituent properties

This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:

{{cssxref("padding-block-start")}}
{{cssxref("padding-block-end")}}

Syntax

css

/* <length> values */
padding-block: 10px 20px; /* An absolute length */
padding-block: 1em 2em; /* relative to the text size */
padding-block: 10px; /* sets both start and end values */

/* <percentage> values */
padding-block: 5% 2%; /* relative to the nearest block container's width */

/* Global values */
padding-block: inherit;
padding-block: initial;
padding-block: revert;
padding-block: revert-layer;
padding-block: unset;

The padding-block property may be specified with one or two values. If one value is given, it is used as the value for both {{cssxref("padding-block-start")}} and {{cssxref("padding-block-end")}}. If two values are given, the first is used for {{cssxref("padding-block-start")}} and the second for {{cssxref("padding-block-end")}}.

Values

The padding-block property takes the same values as the {{cssxref("padding-top")}} property.

Description

The padding values specified by padding-block can be equivalent to the {{cssxref("padding-top")}} and {{cssxref("padding-bottom")}} properties or the {{cssxref("padding-right")}} and {{cssxref("padding-left")}} properties, depending on the values defined for {{cssxref("writing-mode")}}, {{cssxref("direction")}}, and {{cssxref("text-orientation")}}.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

Examples

Setting block padding for vertical text

HTML

html

<div>
  <p class="exampleText">Example text</p>
</div>

CSS

css

div {
  background-color: yellow;
  width: 120px;
  height: 120px;
}

.exampleText {
  writing-mode: vertical-rl;
  padding-block: 20px 40px;
  background-color: #c8c800;
}

Result

{{EmbedLiveSample("Setting_block_padding_for_vertical_text", 140, 140)}}