CSS scroll-padding Property
Example
Set scroll padding to 20px from the container to the snap position:
div {
scroll-padding: 20px;
}
Try it Yourself »
More "Try it Yourself" examples below.
Definition and Usage
The scroll-padding property specifies
the distance from the container to the snap position of child elements.
This means that when you stop scrolling, the scrolling will quickly adjust and stop at a specified distance from the container to the snap position of the child element in focus.
Snap position is the position on the child element where it snaps into place in the container when you stop scrolling.
Note: In the example above, scroll padding is set on all sides, but only the scroll padding on the top side changes the scrolling behaviour because the scroll-snap-align is set to "start".
The scroll-padding property is a shorthand property for the following properties:
Values for the scroll-padding property can be set in different ways:
If the scroll-padding property has four values:
- scroll-padding: 15px 30px 60px 90px;
- top distance is 15px
- right distance is 30px
- bottom distance is 60px
- left distance is 90px
If the scroll-padding property has three values:
- scroll-padding: 15px 30px 60px;
- top distance is 15px
- left and right distances are 30px
- bottom distance is 60px
If the scroll-padding property has two values:
- scroll-padding: 15px 30px;
- top and bottom distances are 15px
- left and right distances are 30px
If the scroll-padding property has one value:
- scroll-padding: 10px;
- all four distances are 10px
To see the effect from the scroll-padding property, the scroll-snap-align property must be set on the child elements, and the scroll-padding and scroll-snap-type properties must be set on the parent element.
| Default value: | auto |
|---|---|
| Inherited: | no |
| Animatable: | no. Read about animatable |
| Version: | CSS3 |
| JavaScript syntax: | object.style.scrollPadding="20px" Try it |
Browser Support
The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.
| Property | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scroll-padding | 69.0 | 79.0 | 68.0 | 14.1 | 56.0 |
CSS Syntax
scroll-padding: auto|value|initial|inherit;
Property Values
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| auto | Default value. The browser calculates the padding |
| length | Specifies scroll-padding in px, pt, cm, etc. Negative values are not allowed. Read about length units |
| % | Specifies the padding in percent of the width of the containing element |
| initial | Sets this property to its default value. Read about initial |
| inherit | Inherits this property from its parent element. Read about inherit |
More Examples
Image gallery
The scroll-padding property can be used in an image gallery with snap behaviour, to push images below a fixed element:
#container {
scroll-padding: 30px 0 0 0;
}
Set scroll-padding at bottom and to the right
The scroll-padding property can be set at both the bottom and the right side of the container. Scroll to the next element both horizontally and vertically to see the effect:
#container {
scroll-padding: 0 10px 30px 0;
}
Related Pages
CSS scroll-padding-bottom property: CSS Scroll-padding-bottom property
CSS scroll-padding-left property: CSS Scroll-padding-left property
CSS scroll-padding-right property: CSS Scroll-padding-right property
CSS scroll-padding-top property: CSS Scroll-padding-top property
CSS scroll-snap-align property: CSS Scroll-snap-align property
CSS scroll-snap-type property: CSS Scroll-snap-type property
