padding-left: 1cm; padding-right: .5cm;
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<title>HTML/XHTML: » CSS1 Padding Example</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<style type="text/CSS">
#one {border-style: double; border-width: medium; padding-left: 1cm; padding-right: .5cm;}
#two {border-style: double; border-width: medium; padding-top: 1cm; padding-bottom: 1cm;}
#three {border-style: double; border-width: medium; padding: 1cm 1cm; margin: .5cm 4cm;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="content">
<p id="one">This paragraph of text has padding on the left and
right, but not on the top and bottom.</p>
<p id="two">This paragraph has padding, but this time only on the
top and bottom.</p>
<p id="three">Be careful when using margins. They don't necessarily
apply to the text within the box, but to the box itself.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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