Why do we use hspace and vspace

Question

Spaces

Answer 1

the space that surrounds <IMG> oder <Object> elements

Answer 2

hspace and vspace refer to the horizontal and vertical spaces respectively. These two are attributes of <img> tags and are used to add space around the image vertically or horizontally.
You can specify the space in of but there's no need to do so.
Example:-
<IMG src="girl.png" hspace="20" vspace="20">

Answer 3

is it basically padding???