How to make padding auto work in CSS

Question

I am working on a legacy project that has CSS Reset with    margin 0  padding 0   applied to everything  Now  my new code doesn t need that as it relies on Normalize css  This hasn t been much of a problem but at some places I need to use both styles   How do I unreset my CSS  I have been able to do   margin auto  which works fine  The same isn t true about padding  Is there an equivalent way to reset the padding  How do you go about solving this

User · Answer

You can reset the padding  and I think everything else  with initial to the default   p       padding  initial

User · Answer

if you re goal is to reset EVERYTHING then  Bj  rn s answer should be your goal but applied as         padding  initial      if this is loaded after your original reset css should have the same weight and will rely on each browser s default padding as initial value

User · Answer

auto is not a valid value for padding property  the only thing you can do is take out padding  0  from the   declaration  else simply assign padding to respective property block   If you remove padding  0  from      than browser will apply default styles to your elements which will give you unexpected cross browser positioning offsets by few pixels  so it is better to assign padding  0  using   and than if you want to override the padding  simply use another rule like   container p      padding  5px

User · Answer

You should just scope your   selector to the specific areas that need the reset   legacy        etc

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The simplest supported solution is to either use margin   element     display  block    margin  0px auto      Or use a second container around the element that has this margin applied  This will somewhat have the effect of padding  0px auto if it did exist   CSS   element wrapper     display  block    margin  0px auto     element     background  blue      HTML   lt div class  element wrapper  gt     lt div class  element  gt      Hello world    lt  div gt   lt  div gt

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