How to Make Full-Width Items in a Container with Padding in CSS?
I'm trying to create a layout where blue and green rectangles (background-color) take the full width of the screen while the text should keeping a padding inside the container. Here is my HTML and CSS code:
https://jsfiddle.net/6hyo07mb/1/
The problem is that the rectangles elements are not taking the full width of the container because of the padding. How can I make these items take the full width of the screen while keeping the container's padding?
<div class="container">
<div class="item">Section 1</div>
<div class="item">Section 2</div>
<div class="item">Section 3</div>
<div class="item">Section 4</div>
<div class="item">Section 5</div>
</div>
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.container {
background-color: red;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
padding: 0 20px;
}
.item {
width: 100%;
height: 20%;
}
.item:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: blue;
}
.item:nth-child(even) {
background-color: green;
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7 Replies
This sounds confusing.
You want the container to have padding but at the same time you want its contents, the "item" elements, to take the full width? I might be missing something that sounds rather contradictory 🤔
If you want the text to have padding, just place the padding on the "item" elements.
yes just move the padding down to the items not the container and also add a so that your padding is included in the width calculation and it doesnt cause overflow;
If i move the padding down to the items and I want to change the size of padding maybe after a couple months, then I have to do it on all items. Is there not a better solution?
You only have to add it once to the .item class.
Not if I use bootstrap: <div class="p-3">Padding on all sides</div>
I'm afraid that I don't know Bootstrap but presumably you can add the class to the parent with a child selector.
I realize that it is not the same, but in Tailwind this can be done by just adding
*:p-3 to the parent element. Maybe something similar is possible in Bootstrap
After a quick search on Bootstrap it seems that this isn't possible, that is to say be defining a child class on the parent element, so your only option is to define it in the style sheet itself.In your style sheet you have .container{padding : 0 20px;} just move it down a couple lines to .item {padding : 0 20px;}