Padding, what are you doing? Padding! NO! STAHP!

[JoniGiuro]

Hi,
I’ve been front ending for a couple of years now and I always find this situation where I want an element to be an exact number of pixels and have some exact padding.
Some time ago I used to set the width of the element MINUS the padding * 2 and that worked. Then I got tired of calculating and started adding an inner div, so I could set the width of the parent easily and set the padding to the inner element, but this also looks like a crappy solution, so I was wondering how you guys handle these situations.
I know about box-sizing: border-box but I don’t want to use it due to browser inconsistencies.

Here’s a fiddle to show the problem and my usual solution (case 2)

http://codepen.io/joe/pen/boABp

Thanks and bye :)

[Kitty Giraudel]

My way to go is the following:
* Box-sizing: border-box on all elements *, *:after, *:before { box-sizing: border-box; }
* Polyfill for IE7 if support required (https://github.com/Schepp/box-sizing-polyfill)

I do that in most projects, it works absolutely fine.

[JoniGiuro]

ok, I’ll give it a try, thanks

[Author]

Posts