I thought I’m the only one who wants to use it ;)
I have some custom list styles with SVG images. Always wondered about the not working paddings and margins. I was about to edit my graphics and add some empty space on the right side… but than I found the following property and used it with 0.3em in my case:
padding-inline-start
https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_padding-inline-start
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