MathML - Padding

<mpadded> element is used to add padding, or extra space, around its content. It can be used to adjust size and positioning e.g. negative padding,which can cause the content of mpadded to overlap the rendering of neighboring content.

Syntax

Here is the simple syntax to use this tag −

<mpadded> expression </mpadded>

Parameters

Here is the description of all the parameters of this tag -

• expression - inferred mrow of multiple children.

Attributes

Here is the description of all the attributes of this tag -

• height - To sets or increment the height of the mpadded element.
• depth - To sets or increment the depth of the mpadded element.
• width - To sets or increment the width of the mpadded element.
• lspace - To sets the horizontal space of the child content.
• voffset - To sets the vertical space of the child content.

Examples

1.

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mrow>
   <mi>x</mi>
   <mpadded lspace="0.2em" voffset="0.3ex">
      <mi>y</mi>
   </mpadded>
   <mi>z</mi>
</mrow>
</math>

Output

xyz

2.

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mrow>
   <mi>x</mi>
   <mpadded width="+90%width" height="+0.3ex" depth="+0.3ex">
      <mi>y</mi>
   </mpadded>
   <mi>z</mi>
</mrow>
</math>

Output

xyz

3.

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mrow>
   <mi>x</mi>
   <mpadded lspace="0.3em" width="+0.6em">
      <mi>y</mi>
   </mpadded>
   <mi>z</mi>
</mrow>
</math>

Output

xyz