Can we define min-margin and max-margin max-padding and min-padding in css

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Can we define min-margin and max-margin  max-padding and min-padding in CSS

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I think I just ran into a similar issue where I was trying to center a login box (like the gmail login box). When resizing the window, the center box would overflow out of the browser window (top) as soon as the browser window became smaller than the box. Because of this, in a small window, even when scrolling up, the top content was lost.

I was able to fix this by replacing the centering method I used by the "margin: auto" way of centering the box in its container. This prevents the box from overflowing in my case, keeping all content available. (minimum margin seems to be 0).

Good Luck !

edit: margin: auto only works to vertically center something if the parent element has its display property set to "flex".

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UPDATE 2020 With the new  yet in Editor s draft  CSS 4 properties you can achieve this by using min   and max    also you can use clamp   as a - kind of - shorthand for both min   and max    clamp MIN  VAL  MAX  is resolved as max MIN  min VAL  MAX    min   syntax   min   lt calc-sum gt      where   lt calc-sum gt     lt calc-product gt             -     lt calc-product gt      where   lt calc-product gt     lt calc-value gt         lt calc-value gt         lt number gt      where   lt calc-value gt     lt number gt     lt dimension gt     lt percentage gt       lt calc-sum gt      max   syntax   max   lt calc-sum gt          where  lt calc-sum gt     lt calc-product gt             -     lt calc-product gt          where    lt calc-product gt     lt calc-value gt         lt calc-value gt         lt number gt      where   lt calc-value gt     lt number gt     lt dimension gt     lt percentage gt       lt calc-sum gt      clamp   syntax   clamp   lt calc-sum gt   3     where   lt calc-sum gt     lt calc-product gt             -     lt calc-product gt      where   lt calc-product gt     lt calc-value gt         lt calc-value gt         lt number gt      where   lt calc-value gt     lt number gt     lt dimension gt     lt percentage gt       lt calc-sum gt      Snippet  x000D   x000D   min        demo      border  green dashed 5px      this your min padding-left     padding-left  min 50vw  50px       max        demo      border  blue solid 5px      this your max padding-left     padding-left  max 50vw  500px       clamp        demo      border  red dotted 5px      this your clamp padding-left     padding-left  clamp 50vw  70vw  1000px          demo           box-sizing  border-box    section     width  50vw     div     height  100px        end of demo    x000D   lt section gt     lt div class  min  gt  lt  div gt     lt div class  max  gt  lt  div gt     lt div class  clamp  gt  lt  div gt   lt  section gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    Old Answer No you can t  margin and padding properties don t have the min max prefixes An approximately way would be using relative units  vh vw   but still not min max And as  vigilante stark pointed out in the answer  the CSS calc   function could be another workaround  something like these   x000D   x000D     demo           box-sizing  border-box    section     background-color  red    width  50vw    height  50px    position  relative     div     width  inherit    height  inherit    position  absolute    top  0    left  0        end of demo      min        demo      border  green dashed 4px      this your min padding-left     padding-left  calc 50vw   50px       max        demo      border  blue solid 3px      this your max padding-left     padding-left  calc 50vw   200px     x000D   lt section gt     lt div class  min  gt  lt  div gt     lt div class  max  gt  lt  div gt   lt  section gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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I was faced with the same problem today  Apparently the solution is as simple as using    padding  calc  put fixed pixels here px    put your required  age here       Note that you do have to decrement the required  age a little to account for fixed pixels

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I was looking for a solution to make the contents of a row behave like in a fixed width container  but with shrinking browser width make a minimal margin from the left  in my case  so that the row contents do not hide under a big logo with position  absolute in left-top    This is what worked for me   HTML   lt div class  parent-container  gt     lt div class  child-container  gt       lt h1 gt Some header lt  h1 gt     lt  div gt   lt  div gt    CSS   parent-container     padding-left  min 150px      child-container     padding-left  calc  50vw - 500px        When I scale the browser window left and right  my h1 doesn t go to the left more than the 150px  but goes right following the behavior of my next row s content set to display in a fixed container

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See this CodePen https   codepen io ella301 pen vYLNmVg which I created  I used 3 CSS functions min  max and calc to make sure the left and right paddings are fluid between minimum 20px and maximum 120px    padding  20px max min 120px  calc  100  - 1198px    2    20px     Hope it helps

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margin and padding don t have min or max prefixes  Sometimes you can try to specify margin and padding in terms of percentage to make it variable with respect to screen size   Further you can also use min-width  max-width  min-height and max-height for doing the similar things   Hope it helps

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Yes  you can  Or if not those terms exactly  then at least the next best thing  In 2020 this is now very straightforward using the CSS math functions  min    max    and clamp    A min calculation picks the smallest from a comma separated list of values  of any length   This can be used to define a max-padding or max-margin rule  padding-right  min 50px  5     A max calculation similarly picks the largest from a comma separated list of values  of any length   This can be used to define a min-padding or min-margin rule  padding-right  max 15px  5     A clamp takes three values  the minimum  preferred  and maximum values  in that order  padding-right  clamp 15px  5   50px    MDN specifies that clamp is actually just shorthand for  max MINIMUM  min PREFERRED  MAXIMUM    Here is a clamp being used to contain a 25vw margin between the values 100px and 200px   x000D   x000D        padding  0    margin  0    box-sizing  border-box      container     width  100vw    border  2px dashed red      margin     width  auto    min-width  min-content    background-color  lightblue    padding  10px    margin-right  clamp 100px  25vw  200px     x000D   lt div class  container  gt     lt div class  margin  gt      The margin-right on this div uses 25vw as its preferred value      100px as its minimum  and 200px as its maximum     lt  div gt   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D   The math functions can be used in all sorts of different scenarios  even potentially obscure ones like scaling font-size - they are not just for controlling margin and padding  Check out the full list of use cases at the MDN links at the top of this post  Here is the caniuse list of browser support  Coverage is generally very good  including almost all modern browsers - with the exception  it appears  of some secondary mobile browsers although have not tested this myself

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I use this hack of defining the minimum margin required then the auto example  margin-left  20px auto  margin-right  20px auto  this makes a minimum cushion area and automatically align the view

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I ran across this looking for a way to do a max-margin for responsive design  I need a 5  margin for mobile tablet devices up to 48 pixels wide  Berd gave me the answer by using media queries   My answer  48   2   96 total max margin  96 is 10  of total width   10   96    960  100  of vw where 48px is the first time I want it to overwrite the      So my media queries to control my margins become    media  max-width  959px         content           margin  30px 5  48px           media  min-width  960px         content           display block          margin  30px 48px 48px

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Late to the party  but I d like to share my simple solution  I m gonna assume that if we want something that would work like a min-margin  it s because we have a margin  auto  in the first place  and we don t want that margin auto being smaller than a certain number   We can do that with two div  one inside another   Here is an example with horizontal margins    lt div class  margin-auto  gt     lt div class  min-margin  gt       lt p gt Lorem Ipsum etc lt  p gt     lt  div gt   lt  div gt    As for the css    margin-auto     margin  0 auto      min-margin     margin  0 16px    max-width  300px

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var w   window innerWidth  var h   window innerHeight  if w  lt  1116      document getElementById  profile   style margin    25px 0px 0px 975px   else     document getElementById  profile   style margin    25px 0px 0px 89      Use code above as an example of how to set min-margin and padding

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Try using the css properties min and max as a workaround For example  width  min 50vw  200px   means the width will be the smallest of the two values  width  max 50vw  200px   means the width will be the larger of the two values  More details here  https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web CSS min

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You can also use  media queries to establish your max min padding margin  but only according to screen size    Let s say you want a max padding of 8px  you can do the following  div     padding  1vh 0     media  max-height  800px      div       padding  8px 0

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This seems to work for me to make a responsive iframe embed with a max height set    embed-container       position  relative      padding-bottom  min 80vh  100        width  100       height  100       max-height  80vh      overflow  hidden      max-width  100          embed-container iframe     embed-container object     embed-container embed       position  absolute      top  0      left  0      width  100       height  100       max-height  80vh        lt div class  embed-container  gt     lt iframe     src  https   player vimeo com video 405184815 title 0 amp byline 0 amp portrait 0      frameborder  0      webkitAllowFullScreen     mozallowfullscreen     allowfullscreen    gt  lt  iframe gt

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vigilante stark s answer worked for me  It can be used to set a minimum  approximately  fixed margin in pixels  But in a responsive layout  when the width of the page is increasing margin can be increased by a percentage according to the given percentage as well  I used it as follows  example-class    margin  0 calc 20px   5   0 0

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I wrote a library to do this  you can view it here  https   codepen io nicetransition pen OyRwKq to use in your case   selector       scale  context   base-size   limit-size-min   limit-size-max   property  padding-right       scale  context   base-size   limit-size-min   limit-size-max   property  padding-left        context  Max-width of your container   base-size  Root font size   limit-size-min  The minimum size   limit-size-max  The maximum size  selector   scale 1400px  16px  5px  20px   property  padding-right   scale 1400px  16px  5px  20px   property  padding-left       This would scale down to 5px and up to 20px  between 5-20 it is dynamic based of vw

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Unfortunately you cannot  I tried using the CSS max function in padding to attempt this functionality  but I got a parse error in my css  Below is what I tried   padding  5px max 50vw - 350px  10vw     I then tried to separate the operations into variables  and that didn t work either    --padding  calc 50vw - 350px      --max-padding  max 1vw  var --padding      padding  5px var --max-padding     What eventually worked was just nesting what I wanted padded in a div with class  centered  and using max width and width like so     centered      width  98vw     max-width  700px     height  100      margin  0 auto      Unfortunately  this appears to be the best way to mimic a  max-padding  and  min-padding   I imagine the technique would be similar for  min-margin  and  max-margin   Hopefully this gets added at some point

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Comming late to the party  as said above there unfortunately is no such thing as max-margin  A sollution that helped me is to place a div above the item you want to have the max-margin applied to    lt body style  width 90vw  height 90vh   gt       lt div name  parrentdiv body  style  width 300px  height 100   background-color  blue  gt           lt div name  margin top  style  width 300px  height 50   min-height 200px  background-color  red  gt  lt  div gt           lt div name  item  style  width 300px  height 180px  background-color  lightgrey  gt Hello World  lt  div gt       lt  div gt   lt  body gt      Run above coded snippet in full page and resize the window to see this working  The lightgreypart will have the margin-top of 50   and a  min-margin-top  of 200px  This margin is the red div  wich you can hide with display  none  if you want to   The blue part is what s left of the body   I hope this will help people with the same problem in the future

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Ideally  margins in CSS containers should collapse  so you can define a parent container which sets its margins s  to the minimum you want  and then use the margin s  you want for the child  and the content of the child will use the larger margins between the parent and child margin    if the child margin s  are smaller than the parent margin s  its padding s   then the child margins s  will have no effect  if the child margin s  are larger than the parent margin s  its padding s   then the parent padding s  should be increased to fit    This is still frequently not working as intended in CSS  currently CSS allows margin s  of a child to collapse into the margin s  of the parent  extending them if necesary   only if the parent defines NO padding and NO border and no intermediate sibling content exist in the parent between the child and the begining of the content box of the parent  however there may be floatting or positioned sibling elements  which are ignored for computing margins  unless they use  clear   to also extend the parent s content-box and compltely fit their own content vertically in it  only the parent s height of the content-box is increased for the top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top block-direction of its content box  or only the parent s width for the left-to-right or right-to-left block-direction  the inline-direction of the parent s content-box plays no role     So if the parent defines only 1px of padding  or only 1px of border  then this stops the child from collapsing its margin into the parent s margin  Instead the child margins will take effect from the content box of the parent  or the border box of the intermediate sibling content if there s any one   This means that any non-null border or non-null padding in the parent is treated by the child as if this was a sibling content in the same parent   So this simple solution should work  use an additional parent without any border or padding to set the minimum margin to nest the child element in it  you can still add borders or paddings to the child  if needed  where you ll defining its own secondary margin  collapsing into the parent s  margins     Note that a child element may collapse its margin s  into several levels of parents   This means that you can define several minimums  e g  for the minimum between 3 values  use two levels of parents to contain the child    Sometimes 3 or more values are needed to account for  the viewport width  the document width  the section container width  the presence or absence of external floats stealing space in the container  and the minimum width needed for the child content itself  All these widths may be variable and may depend as well on the kind of browser used  including its accessibility settings  such as text zoom  or  Hi-DPI  adjustments of sizes in renderers depending on capabilities of the target viewing device  or sometimes because there s a user-tunable choice of layouts such as personal  skins  or other user s preferences  or the set of available fonts on the final rendering host  which means that exact font sizes are hard to predict safely  to match exact sizes in  pixels  for images or borders   as well users have a wide variety of screen sizes or paper sizes if printing  and orientations   scrolling is also not even available or possible to compensate  and truncation of overflowing contents is most often undesirable  as well using excessive  clears  is wasting space and makes the rendered document much less accessible    We need to save space  without packing too much info and keeping clarity fore readers  and ease of navigation   a layout is a constant tradeoff  between saving space and showing more information at once to avoid additional scrolling or navigation to other pages  and keeping the packed info displayed easy to navigate or interact with    But HTML is often not enough flexible for all goals  and even if it offers some advanced features  they becomes difficult to author or to maintain change the documents  or the infos they contain   or readapt the content later for other goals or presentations  Keeping things simple avoids this issue and if we use these simple tricks that have nearly no cost and are easy to understand  we should use them  this will always save lot of precious time  including for web designers

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