How to add padding to my anchor text?

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I'm trying to get my anchor text to move up, but it doesn't seem to work no matter what I try. I don't know if I messed up somewhere on my html or css, but I tried using the span element or p elements to add padding to the bottom of the anchor text so it would move up but I don't know if there is any other methods to get my anchor text to move up or not.

I'm trying to get the anchor text that says, "Play" to move up with padding and the span and p elements didn't do anything to it. I also wanted to show a picture of the problem but I don't know how to do it on here.

At the bottom of my CSS you can see where have a selector called "#sidebar p" and I was trying to add some padding to the bottom of it, but it didn't do anything.

Here's my HTML and CSS:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>nested anchor links in divs</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/styling.css">
</head>

<body>
    <div id="outer-container">
        <div id="sidebar">
            <div class="subnav">
                <a href="#" id="subnavbtn"><img src="images/play logo.webp" alt="play" id="play" height='25px' width='25px'><p>Play</p></a>
            </div>


        </div>
        <div id="content">




        </div>
    </div>

</body>

</html>

html {
	height: 100%;
}

body {
	margin: 0;
	height: 100%;
}

#outer-container {
	display: table;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
}

#sidebar {
	display: table-cell;
	width: 15%;
	height: 100%;
	vertical-align: top;
	background-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);
}

#content {
	display: table-cell;
	width: 85%;
	vertical-align: top;
	background-color: gray;
}

#subnav #subnavbtn {
	font-size: 16px;  
	border: none;
	outline: none;
	color: rgb(214, 208, 208);
}
#sidebar a {
	background-color: rgb(20, 15, 15); 
	color: white; 
	display: block; 
	padding: 10px; 
	text-decoration: none; 
}

#sidebar p {
	padding-bottom: 1em;
	display: inline;
}

#sidebar img {
	padding-top: .2em;
	padding-right: .1em;
}

What I have tried:

I've tried using p and span elements but they don't work on the anchor text for some reason.

Posted 22-Jul-21 19:47pm

adam breslin

Updated 7-Aug-21 5:14am

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Bohdan Stupak · Answer 1 · 2021-08-07T05:14:00

So steps are as follows:
1. You wrap your "play" text into div to apply block layout
2. You switch the order of your contents

HTML

<a href="#" id="subnavbtn">
	<div class="play">Play</div>
	<img id="play" src="images/play logo.webp"  height='25px' width='25px'>                   
</a>

3. You apply margin to your image

CSS

#play {
  margin-top: 25px;
}

Here's the fiddle