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CSS Properties: How to set the left padding for a paragraph element

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HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html><!-- Declares the document type and version of HTML -->
<html><!-- Begins the HTML document -->
<head><!-- Contains metadata and links to external resources -->
<title>How to set the left padding for a paragraph element</title><!-- Sets the title of the document -->
<style type="text/css"> /* Starts CSS styling */
p.w3r { /* Styles paragraph elements with class "w3r" */
    padding-left: 3cm; /* Sets the left padding of the paragraph to 3 centimeters */
}

p.w3r1 { /* Styles paragraph elements with class "w3r1" */
    padding-left: 20%; /* Sets the left padding of the paragraph to 20% of the width of its containing block */
}
</style><!-- Ends CSS styling -->
</head><!-- Ends the head section -->
<body><!-- Begins the body of the document -->
<p>w3resource Tutorial</p><!-- Displays a paragraph with the text "w3resource Tutorial" -->
<p class="w3r">CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.</p><!-- Displays a paragraph with the specified class and text content -->
<p class="w3r1">CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.</p><!-- Displays a paragraph with the specified class and text content -->
</body><!-- Ends the body section -->
</html><!-- Ends the HTML document -->

Explanation:

  • This HTML document demonstrates how to set left padding for paragraph elements using CSS.
  • CSS comments are added to explain each section of the code.
  • Two CSS rules are defined:
    • p.w3r: Applies to paragraphs with the class "w3r" and sets the left padding to 3 centimeters.
    • p.w3r1: Applies to paragraphs with the class "w3r1" and sets the left padding to 20% of the width of its containing block.
  • Paragraph elements with different classes are used to demonstrate the application of different padding styles.

Live Demo:

See the Pen padding-left-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.


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