Can there be negative padding?

Can there be negative padding?

No. Padding only takes positive values. Negatives are ignored or treated as 0, which would have the same effect: none. Margins can have negative values, as can other position related properties, but not padding.

Why is padding negative?

Padding by definition is a positive integer (including 0). Negative padding would cause the border to collapse into the content (see the box-model page on w3) – this would make the content area smaller than the content, which doesn’t make sense. The border collapsing into the content is exactly the wanted effect.

Does padding property contain negative values?

The padding property in CSS defines the innermost portion of the box model, creating space around an element’s content, inside of any defined margins and/or borders. Padding values are set using lengths or percentages, and cannot accept negative values. The initial, or default, value for all padding properties is 0 .

Is negative margin bad?

Using negative margin is considered bad practice as it makes the code more complex and difficult for developer’s understanding. Generally there is no need to use negative margin, unless and until you have made any error elsewhere.

How do you give a negative padding in flutter?

No, Flutter does not allow negative margins but just in case you still want your widgets to overlap each other, you can use a Stack with Positioned which will allow you to generate the layout which you can do with negative margins. NOTE: You can also give negative values in Positioned Widget.

How can I reduce padding?

2 Answers

  1. Remove html code we don’t need (or display: none it, whatever)
  2. Remove css I’ve placed here.
  3. Put normal bottom padding you want.

Are the negative values allowed in padding property Mcq?

When using the padding property; are you allowed to use negative values? The padding property cannot accept negative values.

Should you ever use negative margins?

It does not break the flow of the page if applied to elements without floats. So if you use a negative margin to nudge an element upwards, all succeeding elements will be nudged as well. It is highly compatible. Negative margins are wholly supported across all modern browsers (and IE6 in most cases).

How do you use offset Flutter?

How can I offset a scaffold widget in Flutter?

  1. Create my navigation widget.
  2. Create my news feed widget.
  3. Stack both widgets (news feed on top of the navigation)
  4. If the menu icon is clicked, translate the news feed widget to some value so that the underneath nav widget is visible.