span text padding increase span size

Question

I have the following span

<SPAN style="border:solid;TEXT-ALIGN: right; FONT-STYLE: normal;width:100px; padding-RIGHT: 50px; DISPLAY: inline-block;PADDING-TOP: 3px">hello world</SPAN>

It seems to me the total width of the span is increasing base on the padding size. Is there a way to prevent the span size from increasing and pad the text to the right?

Answer 1

Don't know if your padding-right actually works with a space there, but it shouldn't be there. Could be another problem as well. you have

padding- right:50px

instead of

padding-right:50px;

Edit: to increase space outside of your span rather than increasing the span itself replace:

padding-right:50px;

with

margin-right:50px;

Here is an example. fiddle with it if you don't quite understand. http://jsfiddle.net/robx/GaMpq/

Answer 2

Use margin instead of padding. Padding is space applied inside the element, margin is space applied outside the element.