'''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 * File padding, the practice of adding junk or dummy data to a file or a storage medium to fill up space * 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
== See also == {{wiktionary|padding}} * Pad (disambiguation)
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