How come when you want to add 30px padding to the left only you put {0 0 0 30%}

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I though it went up, left, bottom, right? Should it not be {0 30% 0 0}

Answer 1 · 2015-03-25T23:11:18Z

March 25, 2015 11:11pm

In CSS, padding starts at the top and goes clockwise. There are various shorthand ways of inputting it, but the only way to target only the left of an element is by declaring four values with just padding and putting three zeroes and a value in the fourth position (like this: 0 0 0 30px), or by using padding-left with a single value.

Answer 2 · 2015-03-25T23:10:14Z

March 25, 2015 11:10pm

Its always clock wise direction top, right, bottom, left.

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How come when you want to add 30px padding to the left only you put {0 0 0 30%}

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