textual/docs/styles/padding.md

Padding

The padding rule specifies spacing around the content of a widget.

Syntax

--8<-- "docs/snippets/syntax_block_start.md" padding: <integer> # one value for all edges | <integer> <integer> # top/bot left/right | <integer> <integer> <integer> <integer>; # top right bot left

padding-top: <integer>; padding-right: <integer>; padding-bottom: <integer>; padding-left: <integer>; --8<-- "docs/snippets/syntax_block_end.md"

The padding specifies spacing around the content of a widget, thus this spacing is added inside the widget. The values of the <integer> determine how much spacing is added and the number of values define what edges get what padding:

• 1 <integer> sets the same padding for the four edges of the widget;
• 2 <integer> set padding for top/bottom and left/right edges, respectively.
• 4 <integer> set padding for the top, right, bottom, and left edges, respectively.

!!! tip

To remember the order of the edges affected by the rule `padding` when it has 4 values, think of a clock.
Its hand starts at the top and the goes clockwise: top, right, bottom, left.

Alternatively, padding can be set for each edge individually through the rules padding-top, padding-right, padding-bottom, and padding-left, respectively.

Example

This example adds padding around some text.

=== "Output"

```{.textual path="docs/examples/styles/padding.py"}
```

=== "padding.py"

```python
--8<-- "docs/examples/styles/padding.py"
```

=== "padding.css"

```sass
--8<-- "docs/examples/styles/padding.css"
```

CSS

/* Set padding of 1 around all edges */
padding: 1
/* Set padding of 2 on the top and bottom edges, and 4 on the left and right */
padding: 2 4;
/* Set padding of 1 on the top, 2 on the right,
                 3 on the bottom, and 4 on the left */
padding: 1 2 3 4;

padding-top: 1;
padding-right: 2;
padding-bottom: 3;
padding-left: 4;

Python

In Python, you cannot set any of the individual padding rules padding-top, padding-right, padding-bottom, and padding-left.

However, you can set padding to a single integer, a tuple of 2 integers, or a tuple of 4 integers:

# Set padding of 1 around all edges
widget.styles.padding = 1
# Set padding of 2 on the top and bottom edges, and 4 on the left and right
widget.styles.padding = (2, 4)
# Set padding of 1 on top, 2 on the right, 3 on the bottom, and 4 on the left
widget.styles.padding = (1, 2, 3, 4)