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
• In computer programming, Data structure alignment, achieved by "padding" structures with unused bytes
• 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
• CSS padding, a type of spacing used to lay out websites