dimanche 26 juin 2016

Is it possible to increase the padding of an element while not affecting its border?


I have a navigation bar that includes the usual links, and to improve the user experience I have a bottom border show on hover:

enter image description here

I achieve this with the following code:

body {
  background-color: #E9EBEE;
  color: #666666;
  margin: 0px;
  font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-size: 16px;
}
.nav {
  padding-top: 50px;
  padding-bottom: 5px;
  margin-top: 2em;
  margin-bottom: 6em;
  background-color: #F6F7F9;
  color: #666666;
  font-size: 1.5em;
  line-height: 1.5;
  text-align: center;
}
.nav > .links {
  margin-top: -36px;
  border-left: solid 1px #E9EBEE;
  font-size: 0.8em;
}
.nav > .links > .link {
  float: left;
  position: inherit;
  border-right: solid 1px #E9EBEE;
  border-bottom-width: 2px;
  width: 8em;
  transition: border-color .2s;
}
.nav > .links > .link:hover {
  border-bottom: solid;
  border-bottom-color: #3B5998;
  border-bottom-width: 2px;
  color: #3B5998;
}
<body>
  <div class="nav">
    <div class="links">
      <div class="link">
        Servers
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</body>

I'd like the border to be on the bottom of nav; to do this I added padding-bottom:11px; to .nav > .links > .link, which resulted in this:

enter image description here

The result is exactly what I wanted, however notice that the right and left borders of each navigation item has been extended; something that I should've realised would happen when adding the padding-bottom attribute to .nav > .links > .link.

To fix this I thought that I could use a border-bottom-height since there is a border-bottom-width but apparently no such thing exists, and I don't want to use an additional element if possible to provide the left & right borders. As seen in the first image, the left and right borders should be approximately the height of the text contained.

Is this possible without an additional 'wrapper' element?


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