width: 200px; height: 300px;
<!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: » CSS Padding Example</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <style type="text/css"> p {border: solid 5px; padding: 10px; background-color: yellow; color: black;} #p1 {width: 200px; height: 300px;} </style> </head> <body> <div class="content"> <p id="p1">This is a paragraph with height and width.</p> <p>Just a regular paragraph without height and width.</p> </div> </body> </html>