Overview
The <p> tag is a way to structure your text into different paragraphs. Each paragraph of text should go in between an opening <p> and a closing <p> tag.
Unless you custom style your paragraphs, browsers automatically add some white space (a margin) after a paragraph.
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>Note
With nearly any HTML tag, including the <p> tag, you cannot change the way the browser displays the elements by adding extra spaces or extra lines in your code. The browser will automatically remove any extra spaces and lines when the page is displayed.
<p>
This paragraph
contains a lot of lines
in the code,
but the browser
ignores it.
</p>
<p>
This paragraph
contains a lot of spaces
in the code,
but the browser
ignores it.
</p>To get the layout above, you would need to use the <pre> tag instead of the <p> tag.
HTML Notes:
- In our HTML section the term “tag” and “element” are often used interchangeably to refer to both the tag used to create a page element and the element created by the tag (<p> tag = <p> element = paragraph on the page)
- HTML5 is not case sensitive; so <P> is the same as <p>, <H1> is the same as <h1>
- Global attributes can be used with all HTML tags and are therefore not mentioned on every tag page
- To write clean, readable HTML code, it is best to use indentation whereas elements within elements are indented (tabbed or spaces) to create something that looks like a project outline
- The browser will automatically remove any extra spaces and lines in your HTML code when the page is displayed
- Double quotes or single quotes can be used around HTML attribute values, but when the attribute value itself contains one form of quote, it will be necessary to use the other around the attribute
We’d like to acknowledge that we learned a great deal of our coding from W3Schools and TutorialsPoint, borrowing heavily from their teaching process and excellent code examples. We highly recommend both sites to deepen your experience, and further your coding journey. We’re just hitting the basics here at 1SMARTchicken.