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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Build Navigation with Unordered Lists

Posted by bhavitvya malik
bhavitvya malik
Courses Plus Student 700 Points

Problem with the concept of padding

I just couldn't understand what's padding. I just know its basic meaning. How would i come to know that 5% padding is to be applied. Please help me with this one. Thank you!

2 Answers

jag
jag
18,266 Points
jag
jag
18,266 Points

Here is a box model to illustrate what padding is: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_boxmodel.asp

Using a browsers inspector tool you can see what styles are being applied.

Does that help?

bhavitvya malik
bhavitvya malik
Courses Plus Student 700 Points

thank you :) I think the only way to enter their correct values is by using hit and trial method only, no other way.

Ada N
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Ada N
Courses Plus Student 4,246 Points
Ada N
Ada N
Courses Plus Student 4,246 Points

It also helps to set padding values for top, right, bottom, left then remove these one by one to see the effect on your webpage:)