title: How to add padding space in /div container via CSS?
body: <p>Beginner page building question:</p>
  
  <p>I've got a simple /div container defined via a CSS style called "content_bottom" like such:</p>
  
  <pre><code>border-top: 5pt solid #f4f4f4;
  padding: 10pt;
  border-collapse: separate;
  text-align: left;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I start typing text in it I noticed that the text starts touching the very left edge of the box. I tried to add padding and even borders (via the CSS style) to the container, but there was no effect. However, adding top/bottom borders DID have an effect. Why is this? What should I do so that the text would not start touching the very left (and top) of the box? Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>P.S. This is the full HTML for the page:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;site title goes here&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="penonek.css" type="text/css"&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;div class="wrapper"&gt;
  &lt;div class="column_top"&gt;this &lt;br&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="content_top"&gt;is site title&lt;br&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="column_bottom"&gt;
  &lt;ul&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;home&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;link 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;link 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;link 3&lt;br&gt;
  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;/ul&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="content_bottom"&gt;this is the container's content&lt;br&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the full CSS:</p>
  
  <pre><code>body {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    text-align: center;
    background-color: black;
    font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
    color: #cccccc;
    font-size: 16pt;
  }
  .wrapper {
    margin: auto;
    min-width: 900pt;
    font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
    width: 900pt;
    color: #cccccc;
  }
  .column_top {
    border-width: 0 0 5pt;
    border-bottom: 5pt solid black;
    min-width: 150pt;
    color: #333333;
    width: 150pt;
    max-width: 150pt;
    background-color: #f4f4f4;
    float: left;
    min-height: 45pt;
    max-height: 45pt;
    height: 45pt;
    padding-top: 105pt;
    font-size: 40pt;
    text-align: right;
    font-weight: bold;
  }
  .content_top {
    border-width: 0 0 5pt;
    border-bottom: 5pt solid #f4f4f4;
    height: 45pt;
    min-height: 45pt;
    max-height: 45pt;
    padding-top: 105pt;
    text-align: left;
    font-size: 40pt;
    font-weight: bold;
  }
  .column_bottom {
    border-width: 5pt 0 0;
    border-top: 5pt solid black;
    color: #333333;
    background-color: #f4f4f4;
    width: 145pt;
    min-width: 145pt;
    max-width: 145pt;
    text-align: right;
    padding-top: 50pt;
    padding-right: 5pt;
    float: left;
  }
  .content_bottom {
    border-top: 5pt solid #f4f4f4;
    padding: 10pt;
    border-collapse: separate;
    text-align: left;
  }
  .column_bottom ul {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    font-weight: inherit;
    color: #333333;
    list-style-type: none;
    text-decoration: none;
  }
  .column_bottom a:hover {
    background-color: #999999;
  }
  .column_bottom a {
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: inherit;
    color: #333333;
  }
  </code></pre>