[html] Ignore parent padding

I'm trying to get my horizontal rule to ignore the parent padding.

Here's a simple example of what I have:

#parent {
  padding:10px;
  width:100px;
}
hr {
  width:100px;
}

You will find that the horizontal rule extends out of the parent by 10px. I'm trying to get it to ignore the padding that everything else in the parent div needs.

I'm aware that I could make a separate div for everything else; this is not the solution I'm looking for.

This question is related to html css

The answer is


Easy fix, just do

margin:-10px

on the hr.


Here is another way to do it.

<style>
    .padded-element{margin: 0px; padding: 10px;}
    .padded-element img{margin-left: -10px; width: calc(100% + 10px + 10px);}
</style>
<p class="padded-element">
    <img src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/3014019/pexels-photo-3014019.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940">
</p>

Here are some examples on repl.it: https://repl.it/@bryku/LightgrayBleakIntercept


Another solution:

position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;

just change the top/right/bottom/left to your case.


easy fix.. add to parent div:

box-sizing: border-box;


In large this question has been answered but in small parts by everyone. I dealt with this just a minute ago.

I wanted to have a button tray at the bottom of a panel where the panel has 30px all around. The button tray had to be flush bottom and sides.

.panel
{
  padding: 30px;
}

.panel > .actions
{
  margin: -30px;
  margin-top: 30px;
  padding: 30px;
  width: auto;
}

I did a demo here with more flesh to drive the idea. However the key elements above are offset any parent padding with matching negative margins on the child. Then most critical if you want to run the child full-width then set width to auto. (as mentioned in a comment above by schlingel).


If you have a parent container with vertical padding and you want something (e.g. an image) inside that container to ignore its vertical padding you can set a negative, but equal, margin for both 'top' and 'bottom':

margin-top: -100px;
margin-bottom: -100px;

The actual value doesn't appear to matter much. Haven't tried this for horizontal paddings.


Kinda late.But it just takes a bit of math.

.content {
  margin-top: 50px;
  background: #777;
  padding: 30px;
  padding-bottom: 0;
  font-size: 11px;
  border: 1px dotted #222;
}

.bottom-content {
  background: #999;
  width: 100%; /* you need this for it to work */
  margin-left: -30px; /* will touch very left side */
  padding-right: 60px; /* will touch very right side */
}

<div class='content'>

  <p>A paragraph</p>
  <p>Another paragraph.</p>
  <p>No more content</p>


  <div class='bottom-content'>
      I want this div to ignore padding.
  </div>

I don't have Windows so I didn't test this in IE.

fiddle: fiddle example..


margin: 0 -10px; 

is better than

margin: -10px;

The later sucks content vertically into it.


For image purpose you can do something like this

img {
    width: calc(100% + 20px); // twice the value of the parent's padding
    margin-left: -10px; // -1 * parent's padding
}

If your after a way for the hr to go straight from the left side of a screen to the right this is the code to use to ensure the view width isn't effected.

hr {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}

The problem could come down to which box model you're using. Are you using IE?

When IE is in quirks mode, width is the outer width of your box, which means the padding will be inside. So the total area left inside the box is 100px - 2 * 10px = 80px in which case your 100px wide <hr> will not look right.

If you're in standards mode, width is the inner width of your box, and padding is added outside. So the total width of the box is 100px + 2 * 10px = 120px leaving exactly 100px inside the box for your <hr>.

To solve it, either adjust your CSS values for IE. (Check in Firefox to see if it looks okay there). Or even better, set a document type to kick the browser into strict mode - where also IE follows the standard box model.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
 ...

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html


Your parent is 120px wide - that is 100 width + 20 padding on each side so you need to make your line 120px wide. Here's the code. Next time note that padding adds up to element width.

#parent
{
    width: 100px;
    padding: 10px;
    background-color: Red;
}

hr
{
    width: 120px;
    margin:0 -10px;
    position:relative;
}