How wide is the default `` margin?

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What’s the default margin that HTML sets for its <body> tag? I noticed that there’s some automatic margin, but I’m wondering if anyone knows how much it is (and whether it’s in px or %, etc.).

It will vary between browsers. Consider using normalize http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/ — Jrod, Oct 29 '12 at 18:56

score 63 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 12 '22 at 16:13

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In most major browsers, the default margin is 8px on all sides. It is defined in pixels by the user-agent-stylesheet your browser provides.

Some browsers allow you to create and use your own user-agent-stylesheet, but if you are developing a website, I would recommend staying away from changing this, since your users most likely will not have a modified stylesheet and would then see a different page than you do.

If you want to change it, you can just do this:

body {
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
  ...
}

But if you have a large project and want to be more complete, use normalize.css. It resets a lot of default values to be consistent across browsers.

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answered Oct 29 '12 at 19:07

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Don't need the px – Neil Jun 05 '17 at 12:47
you also don't need to reset the padding. – tacoshy May 10 '22 at 18:41

Vickar · Answer 2 · 2018-05-04T08:18:57.960

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According to W3School's CSS reference, the default properties and values for a body tag are,

body{ display : block; margin : 8px; }

And one can quickly get the computed details of any element by accessing the Computed Pane in the Chrome Dev tools.

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answered May 04 '18 at 08:02

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 29 '21 at 05:57

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css default values https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_default_values.asp

body{ display : block; margin : 8px; }

answered Jun 29 '21 at 05:57

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How wide is the default `` margin?

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