CSS Padding will take extra space from each side of the element.
You can set the padding of the element by using:
padding: value
Alternatively, if you want to specify padding of each side, you can use:
padding-top: value;
padding-left: value;
padding-right: value;
padding-bottom: value;
div { background: #CCC; width: 300px; height: 60px } .padding { padding: 20px; }
<div> This is a div without padding </div> <br /> <div class="padding"> This is a div with padding </div>