How to increase padding around images in Jekyll - css

Question

I have a Jekyll blog with GitHub pages and have an issue where images embedded in blog posts don't have any padding, meaning the text is too close to the image:
I'd like to specify the padding in the style.scss file so it's applied to all images in blog posts in the future. Where should I add a padding argument? Thank you!
---
---
//
// IMPORTS
//
#import "reset";
#import "variables";
// Syntax highlighting #import is at the bottom of this file
/**************/
/* BASE RULES */
/**************/
html {
font-size: 100%;
}
body {
background: $white;
font: 16px/1.4 $helvetica;
color: $darkGray;
}
.container {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 740px;
padding: 0 10px;
width: 100%;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-family: $helveticaNeue;
color: $darkerGray;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 1.7;
margin: 1em 0 15px;
padding: 0;
#include mobile {
line-height: 1.4;
}
}
h1 {
font-size: 30px;
a {
color: inherit;
}
}
h2 {
font-size: 24px;
}
h3 {
font-size: 20px;
}
h4 {
font-size: 18px;
color: $gray;
}
p {
margin: 15px 0;
text-align: justify;
}
a {
color: $blue;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
&:hover, &:active {
color: $blue;
}
}
ul, ol {
margin: 15px 0;
padding-left: 30px;
}
ul {
list-style-type: disc;
}
ol {
list-style-type: decimal;
}
ol ul, ul ol, ul ul, ol ol {
margin: 0;
}
ul ul, ol ul {
list-style-type: circle;
}
em, i {
font-style: italic;
}
strong, b {
font-weight: bold;
}
img {
max-width: 100%;
}
// Fixes images in popup boxes from Google Translate
.gmnoprint img {
max-width: none;
}
.date {
font-style: italic;
color: $gray;
}
// Specify the color of the selection
::-moz-selection {
color: $black;
background: $lightGray;
}
::selection {
color: $black;
background: $lightGray;
}
// Nicolas Gallagher's micro clearfix hack
// http://nicolasgallagher.com/micro-clearfix-hack/
.clearfix:before,
.clearfix:after {
content: " ";
display: table;
}
.clearfix:after {
clear: both;
}
/*********************/
/* LAYOUT / SECTIONS */
/*********************/
//
// .masthead
//
.wrapper-masthead {
margin-bottom: 50px;
}
.masthead {
padding: 20px 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid $lightGray;
#include mobile {
text-align: center;
}
}
.site-avatar {
float: left;
width: 70px;
height: 70px;
margin-right: 15px;
#include mobile {
float: none;
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
img {
border-radius: 5px;
}
}
.site-info {
float: left;
#include mobile {
float: none;
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
}
.site-name {
margin: 0;
color: $darkGray;
cursor: pointer;
font-family: $helveticaNeue;
font-weight: 300;
font-size: 28px;
letter-spacing: 1px;
}
.site-description {
margin: -5px 0 0 0;
color: $gray;
font-size: 16px;
#include mobile {
margin: 3px 0;
}
}
nav {
float: right;
margin-top: 23px; // #TODO: Vertically middle align
font-family: $helveticaNeue;
font-size: 18px;
#include mobile {
float: none;
margin-top: 9px;
display: block;
font-size: 16px;
}
a {
margin-left: 20px;
color: $darkGray;
text-align: right;
font-weight: 300;
letter-spacing: 1px;
#include mobile {
margin: 0 10px;
color: $blue;
}
}
}
//
// .main
//
.posts > .post {
padding-bottom: 2em;
border-bottom: 1px solid $lightGray;
}
.posts > .post:last-child {
padding-bottom: 1em;
border-bottom: none;
}
.post {
blockquote {
margin: 1.8em .8em;
border-left: 2px solid $gray;
padding: 0.1em 1em;
color: $gray;
font-size: 22px;
font-style: italic;
}
.comments {
margin-top: 10px;
}
.read-more {
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 15px;
}
}
.wrapper-footer {
margin-top: 50px;
border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
background-color: $lightGray;
}
footer {
padding: 20px 0;
text-align: center;
}
// Settled on moving the import of syntax highlighting to the bottom of the CSS
// ... Otherwise it really bloats up the top of the CSS file and makes it difficult to find the start
#import "highlights";
#import "svg-icons";

Answer 1

I would modify your img tag in your style.scss...
change this...
img {
max-width: 100%;
}
to this...
img {
max-width: 100%;
padding: 5px;
}
if the image has it's own DIV use this...
.imageDiv img {
padding: 5px;
}