The box model and padding - HTML & CSS

by danielkwood

HTML

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Box model</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="theme.css" type="text/css"/>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>This is a heading</h1>
        <h2>This is smaller heading</h2>
        <h3>This is an even smaller heading</h3>
        <p>And this is a paragraph</p>
        <img src="image.png" width="30%"/>
    </body>
</html>

CSS

body{
    font-family: Arial;
}
h1{
    background-color: yellow;
    padding: 20px; /* padding on all four sides */
}
h2{
    background-color: green;
    padding-top: 30px;
    padding-right: 20px;
    padding-bottom: 50px;
    padding-left: 30px;
}
h3{
    background-color: orange;
    padding: 10px 20px 10px 20px; /* top, right, bottom, left */
}
p{
    background-color: lightblue;
    padding: 10px 30px; /* top and bottom, right and left */
}
img{
    padding: 5%; /* you can also use % values */
}