Articles Tagged padding

I learned something about percentage-based (%) padding today that I had totally wrong in my head! I always thought that percentage padding was based on the element itself. So if an element is 1,000 pixels wide with padding-top: 50%, that padding is 500 pixels. It’s weird having top padding based on width, but that’s how it works — but only sorta. The 50% is based on the parent element’s width, not itself. That’s the part that confused me. … Read article “Oh Hey, Padding Percentage is Based on the Parent Element’s Width”

Viewport units are things like 10vw (10% of the viewport width) or 2vh (2% of the viewport height). Useful sometimes, as they are always relative to the viewport. No cascading or influence by parent elements.

There is also vmin, which is the lesser of vw and vh, and vmax, which is the greater. These values can be used for anything that takes a length value, just like px or em or % or whatever.

Let’s take a look at a … Read article “Simple Little Use Case for `vmin`”