/* <length> values */ shape-margin: 10px; shape-margin: 20mm;  /* <percentage> value */ shape-margin: 60%;  /* Global values */ shape-margin: inherit; shape-margin: initial; shape-margin: revert; shape-margin: unset; 

shape-margin

The shape-margin CSS property sets a margin for a CSS shape created using shape-outside.

The margin lets you adjust the distance between the edges of the shape (the float element) and the surrounding content.

Syntax

/* <length> values */ shape-margin: 10px; shape-margin: 20mm;  /* <percentage> value */ shape-margin: 60%;  /* Global values */ shape-margin: inherit; shape-margin: initial; shape-margin: revert; shape-margin: unset; 

Values

Sets the margin of the shape to a <length> value or to a <percentage> of the width of the element's containing block.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

<length-percentage>
where <length-percentage> = <length> | <percentage>

Examples

Adding a margin to a polygon

<section> <div class="shape"></div> We are not quite sure of any one thing in biology; our knowledge of geology is relatively very slight, and the economic laws of society are uncertain to every one except some individual who attempts to set them forth; but before the world was fashioned the square on the hypotenuse was equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides of a right triangle, and it will be so after this world is dead; and the inhabitant of Mars, if one exists, probably knows its truth as we know it.</section> 

section {   max-width: 400px; }  .shape {   float: left;   width: 150px;   height: 150px;   background-color: maroon;   clip-path: polygon(0 0, 150px 150px, 0 150px);   shape-outside: polygon(0 0, 150px 150px, 0 150px);   shape-margin: 20px; } 

Specifications

See also

Last modified: Aug 12, 2021, by MDN contributors