Paragraphs

Except in one special circumstance, a browser will not obey any line breaks in the ASCII text file that contains the XHTML document, but will instead reformat the text to break at the right-hand margin of the window (or sub-region of the window) in which it is being presented.

The most essential element is the Paragraph element (P), which defines a single paragraph in the text. The browser begins a new paragraph on a new line and creates gaps between paragraphs:

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>

With the advent of CSS and some of the common attributes described later, it is possible to use this one tag for almost all block-level formatting, though a number of other tags were defined in early versions of HTML and are still widely used for identifying headings, lists and other structures.