HTML p Tag

Example

A paragraph is marked up as follows:

<p>This is some text in a paragraph.</p>

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Definition and Usage

The <p> tag defines a paragraph.

Browsers automatically add some space (margin) before and after each <p> element. The margins can be modified with CSS (with the margin properties).

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Browser Support

Element
<p>	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

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Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

The align attribute is not supported in HTML5.

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Attributes

Attribute	Value	Description
align	left right center justify	Not supported in HTML5. Specifies the alignment of the text within a paragraph

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Global Attributes

The <p> tag also supports the Global Attributes in HTML.

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Event Attributes

The <p> tag also supports the Event Attributes in HTML.

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Try it Yourself - Examples

More paragraphs
Some default behaviors of paragraphs.

Poem problems
Examples of how you can NOT write a poem in HTML.

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Related Pages

HTML tutorial: HTML Paragraphs

HTML DOM reference: Paragraph Object

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Default CSS Settings

Most browsers will display the <p> element with the following default values:

Example

p {
  display: block;
  margin-top: 1em;
  margin-bottom: 1em;
  margin-left: 0;
  margin-right: 0;}

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