diff --git a/packages/email-renderer/package.json b/packages/email-renderer/package.json
index b787e6fc..c12b1a75 100644
--- a/packages/email-renderer/package.json
+++ b/packages/email-renderer/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/email-renderer",
-  "version": "0.1.45",
+  "version": "0.1.46",
   "type": "module",
   "description": "WRNexus block email renderers with HTML, text, AMP Email, and MJML interoperability.",
   "exports": {
diff --git a/packages/email-renderer/src/blocks.ts b/packages/email-renderer/src/blocks.ts
index 83fc242c..fbf8f1f5 100644
--- a/packages/email-renderer/src/blocks.ts
+++ b/packages/email-renderer/src/blocks.ts
@@ -116,18 +116,22 @@ const buttonVisuals = (node: BlockNode) => ({
   fontSize: emailStyleValue("fontSize", styleBase(node, "fontSize")) || "16px",
   fontWeight: emailStyleValue("fontWeight", styleBase(node, "fontWeight")) || "700",
   radius: emailStyleValue("borderRadius", styleBase(node, "borderRadius")) || "6px",
+  padding: emailStyleValue("padding", styleBase(node, "padding")) || "12px 20px",
 });
 const buttonVisualCss = (node: BlockNode) => {
   const values = buttonVisuals(node);
-  return `color:${values.color};font-size:${values.fontSize};font-weight:${values.fontWeight};border-radius:${values.radius}`;
+  return `color:${values.color};font-size:${values.fontSize};font-weight:${values.fontWeight};border-radius:${values.radius};padding:${values.padding}`;
 };
 const buttonAlignment = (node: BlockNode, context: unknown) => {
   const value = emailStyleValue("textAlign", styleBase(node, "textAlign")) || "start";
   const rtl = (context as { direction?: string } | undefined)?.direction === "rtl";
   return value === "start" ? (rtl ? "right" : "left") : value === "end" ? (rtl ? "left" : "right") : value;
 };
-const emailCell = (body: string, node: BlockNode, align?: string) =>
-  `<tr><td data-block-id="${html(node.id)}"${align ? ` align="${html(align)}"` : ""} style="padding:0;${semanticStyle(node)}">${body}</td></tr>`;
+const emailCell = (body: string, node: BlockNode, align?: string) => {
+  // Button visuals belong to the clickable element, never the full-width cell.
+  const cellNode = node.type === "content.button" ? { ...node, styles: Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(node.styles).filter(([key]) => ["textAlign", "margin"].includes(key))) } : node;
+  return `<tr><td data-block-id="${html(node.id)}"${align ? ` align="${html(align)}"` : ""} style="padding:0;${semanticStyle(cellNode)}">${body}</td></tr>`;
+};
 
 export const emailDocumentBlock = defineBlock({
   manifest: {
@@ -401,7 +405,7 @@ export const buttonBlock = leaf(
   {
     emailHtml: ({ node, context }) =>
       emailCell(
-        `<table role="presentation" align="${buttonAlignment(node, context)}" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="${html(buttonBackground(node, context))}" style="border-radius:${html(buttonVisuals(node).radius)};"><a href="${html(attrs(node).href)}" style="${html(buttonVisualCss(node))};display:inline-block;font-family:inherit;padding:12px 20px;text-decoration:none;">${html(attrs(node).label)}</a></td></tr></table>`,
+        `<table role="presentation" align="${buttonAlignment(node, context)}" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="${html(buttonBackground(node, context))}" style="border-radius:${html(buttonVisuals(node).radius)};"><a href="${html(attrs(node).href)}" style="${html(buttonVisualCss(node))};display:inline-block;font-family:inherit;text-decoration:none;">${html(attrs(node).label)}</a></td></tr></table>`,
         node,
       ),
     ampEmail: ({ node, context }) =>
@@ -411,7 +415,7 @@ export const buttonBlock = leaf(
         buttonAlignment(node, context),
       ),
     mjml: ({ node, context }) =>
-      `<mj-button align="${buttonAlignment(node, context)}" background-color="${html(buttonBackground(node, context))}" color="${html(buttonVisuals(node).color)}" font-size="${html(buttonVisuals(node).fontSize)}" font-weight="${html(buttonVisuals(node).fontWeight)}" border-radius="${html(buttonVisuals(node).radius)}" href="${html(attrs(node).href)}">${html(attrs(node).label)}</mj-button>`,
+      `<mj-button align="${buttonAlignment(node, context)}" background-color="${html(buttonBackground(node, context))}" color="${html(buttonVisuals(node).color)}" font-size="${html(buttonVisuals(node).fontSize)}" font-weight="${html(buttonVisuals(node).fontWeight)}" border-radius="${html(buttonVisuals(node).radius)}"${styleBase(node, "padding") ? ` inner-padding="${html(buttonVisuals(node).padding)}"` : ""} href="${html(attrs(node).href)}">${html(attrs(node).label)}</mj-button>`,
   },
   ({ node }) => `${String(attrs(node).label)}: ${String(attrs(node).href)}\n\n`,
 );
diff --git a/packages/email-renderer/src/mjml.ts b/packages/email-renderer/src/mjml.ts
index 4b13b4df..536c85fb 100644
--- a/packages/email-renderer/src/mjml.ts
+++ b/packages/email-renderer/src/mjml.ts
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ export function importMjml(
         "font-size": ["fontSize", /^\d+(?:\.\d+)?(?:px|rem|em|%)$/],
         "font-weight": ["fontWeight", /^(normal|bold|[1-9]00)$/],
         "border-radius": ["borderRadius", /^\d+(?:\.\d+)?(?:px|rem|em|%)$/],
+        "inner-padding": ["padding", /^\d+(?:\.\d+)?(?:px|rem|em|%)(?:\s+\d+(?:\.\d+)?(?:px|rem|em|%)){0,3}$/],
       };
       for (const [attribute, raw] of Object.entries(a)) {
         if (attribute === "href") continue;
diff --git a/packages/email-renderer/test/button-surface.test.ts b/packages/email-renderer/test/button-surface.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ddc7d0e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/email-renderer/test/button-surface.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { buttonBlock, ampLayoutCss } from "../src/blocks.ts";
+
+test("button visuals target the clickable surface rather than the full-width wrapper", async () => {
+  const node = {id:"cta",type:"content.button",version:1,props:{label:"Act",href:"https://example.com"},styles:{backgroundColor:{base:"#123456"},padding:{base:"8px 32px"},borderRadius:{base:"20px"}},slots:{}};
+  const context = {node,context:{},slots:{}} as never;
+  const html = String(await buttonBlock.renderers!.emailHtml!(context));
+  const wrapper = html.match(/<td data-block-id="cta"[^>]*>/)![0];
+  expect(wrapper).not.toContain("#123456");
+  expect(wrapper).not.toContain("20px");
+  expect(wrapper).not.toContain("32px");
+  expect(html).toContain('bgcolor="#123456"');
+  expect(html.match(/<a [^>]*>/)![0]).toContain("padding:8px 32px");
+  expect(ampLayoutCss(node)).toContain("padding:8px 32px");
+  expect(String(await buttonBlock.renderers!.mjml!(context))).toContain('inner-padding="8px 32px"');
+});