I am writing a very simple HTML code which is listed below. Written in notepad and opening in IE-8 and Firefox (OS: Window Vista).

&lt;html&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
    &lt;table border="1"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;test&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;


There is nothing special in the above code, It is creating some space from top left corner.



Which can be easily removed by using the following code

&lt;body style="margin:0; padding:0"&gt;


Now i have find out the default margin and padding, which is 4 for Firefox and different for IE-8. 

&lt;body style="margin:4; padding:4"&gt;


I have some question on this scenario.


Why this value is 4?
From where this value is coming, is it saved somewhere?
Can we modify (configurable) this default value?
How these values are different for browsers? 


Thanks.


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