padding-right Attribute | paddingRight Property

Sets or retrieves the amount of space to insert between the right border of the object and the content.

Syntax

HTML Scripting

{ padding-right : sPadding }

object . style.paddingRight [ = sPadding ]

Possible Values

sPadding

Variant that specifies or receives one of the following values.

length	Floating-point number, followed by an absolute units designator ( cm , mm , in , pt , pc , or px ) or a relative units designator ( em or ex ). 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.

Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties .

Remarks

As of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5, this property applies to inline elements. With earlier versions of 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-right attribute and the paddingRight property to change the padding of the object.

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

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

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

Standards Information

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

Applies To

TEXTAREA Platform Version

Win16:	4.0
Win32:	4.0
Windows CE:	4.0
Unix:	4.0
Mac:	4.0

A , ACRONYM , ADDRESS , APPLET , B , BDO , BIG , BLOCKQUOTE , BODY , BUTTON , CAPTION , CENTER , CITE , CODE , COL , COLGROUP , 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

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