---
title: "Flexbox and padding"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/flexbox-and-padding-mhx7ngrwd
source_url: https://chenhuijing.com/blog/flexbox-and-padding/
type: article
source: "Chen Hui Jing"
published: 2025-11-30T12:32:08.211Z
updated: 2025-11-30T12:34:41.823Z
tags: ["webdev", "css", "frontend"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Flexbox and padding

**[Chen Hui Jing](https://daily.dev/sources/chenhuijing)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Explores a common CSS flexbox issue where padding doesn't appear on the flex-end side of containers with horizontal overflow scrolling. The behavior stems from longstanding browser inconsistencies in handling overflow content and padding. Two practical workarounds are presented: using styled borders to simulate padding, or leveraging the ::after pseudo-element to create spacing at the container's end.

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