Creating Paragraphs and Line Breaks
Within the <body> section of the document, you type the text that will appear on the Web page. Each paragraph of text should be enclosed in a two-sided tag that indicates its type.
The most basic paragraph type is the body paragraph, indicated by the <p> tag. It is a two-sided tag, so the paragraph text is placed between a <p> and a </p>. In HTML the </p> can be omitted, but in XHTML it is required. Even if you are using HTML, it is good practice to always include the </p> tag, so you don’t get into any sloppy habits that will get you in trouble later if you decide to switch to XHTML.
When a Web page is displayed in a browser, white space is inserted between paragraphs:
That can be a problem when you don’t want ...
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