Lesson 3: Making Paragraphs
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The paragraph tag tells the computer to begin a new
paragraph. Every time the computer sees this opening
tag, it will automatically place a blank line between the
paragraphs and begin a new paragraph on the next
line. It will not indent the paragraph. Since it places
a blank line there, the indentation is not necessary.
The closing tag is optional. When the computer sees
the next opening paragraph tag, it will begin a new
paragraph whether the closing paragraph tag is in place
or not.
<P>...</P>
or just
<P>
Assignment 3
ype the following HTML document word for word, then,
check it in a browser to see if it appears correctly.
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Putting Paragraphs on the Web</TITLE> </HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>Putting Paragraphs on the Web</H1>
<P>By placing the paragraph tag at the beginning of the
paragraph, I have told the computer that this is a new
paragraph and to behave accordingly and skip a line
and then begin on the next line. </P>
<P>See how easy this is? HTML is not hard as long
as you remember to put the closing tags where you
need them. When you forget the computer does all sorts
of things that it shouldn't because you didn't tell it
to stop doing something.
<P> See that last time we did not put the closing tag and
the computer still knew to begin another paragraph. This
tag does not require the closing tag. It is optional.
</BODY>
</HTML>
end of lesson
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