Padding (disambiguation)

Padding is a soft material used for the sake of comfort or to change the shape of something.

Padding may also refer to:


 * Schedule padding, time added to a transportation schedule making it resilient to delay
 * Padding argument, method of proving that some complexity classes are conditionally equal
 * Padding (cryptography), increasing the length of a message prior to encryption so that its actual length is not disclosed
 * Resume padding, fluff added to a resume

Computing

 * Data structure alignment, achieved by "padding" data structures with unused bytes
 * Output padding, non-printing characters used after control sequences

Output formatting

 * Cellpadding, or cell padding, in HTML and CSS languages, the amount of space between the border of a table cell and its contents (margin in a cell)
 * HTML padding, an HTML attribute used to space between the text and the border
 * CSS padding, a type of spacing used to lay out websites