HTML Paragraphs
The HTML
<p>element defines a paragraph:
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<p>This is a
paragraph.</p>
<p>This is a
paragraph.</p>
<p>This is a
paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
Output:
This is a
paragraph.
This is a paragraph.
This is a paragraph.
HTML Display
- You cannot be sure how HTML will be displayed.
- Large or small screens, and resized windows will create different results.
- With HTML, you cannot change the output by adding extra spaces or extra lines in your HTML code.
- The browser will remove any extra spaces and extra lines when the page is displayed:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<p>
This paragraph
contains a lot of lines
in the source code,
but the browser
ignores it.
</p>
<p>
This paragraph
contains a lot of spaces
in the source code,
but the browser
ignores it.
</p>
<p>
The number of lines in a
paragraph depends on the size of the browser window. If you resize the browser
window, the number of lines in this paragraph will change.
</p>
</body>
</html>
Output:
This
paragraph contains a lot of lines in the source code, but the browser ignores
it.
This paragraph contains a lot
of spaces in the source code, but the browser ignores it.
The number of lines in a
paragraph depends on the size of the browser window. If you resize the browser
window, the number of lines in this paragraph will change.
Don't Forget the End Tag
Most browsers will display HTML correctly even if you forget the
end tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<p>This is a
paragraph.
<p>This is a
paragraph.
<p>This is a
paragraph.
<p>Don't forget to
close your HTML tags!</p>
</body>
</html>
Output:
This is a
paragraph.
This is a paragraph.
This is a paragraph.
Don't forget to close your HTML
tags!
HTML Line Breaks
The HTML
<br> element defines a line
break.
Use <br> if you want a
line break (a new line) without starting a new paragraph:
<!DOCTYPE
html>
<html>
<body>
<p>This
is <br> a paragraph <br> with line breaks</p>
</body>
</html>
Output:
This is
a paragraph
with line breaks
a paragraph
with line breaks
The <br> tag is an empty tag, which means that it has no
end tag.
The Poem Problem
This poem will display on a single line:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<p>In HTML, spaces and new lines are ignored:</p>
<p>
My Bonnie lies over the ocean.
My Bonnie lies over the
sea.
My Bonnie lies over the
ocean.
Oh, bring back my Bonnie
to me.
</p>
</body>
</html>
Output:
In HTML,
spaces and new lines are ignored:
My Bonnie lies over the ocean.
My Bonnie lies over the sea. My Bonnie lies over the ocean. Oh, bring back my
Bonnie to me.
The HTML <pre> Element
- The HTML <pre> element defines preformatted text.
- The text inside a <pre> element is displayed in a fixed-width font (usually Courier), and it preserves both spaces and line breaks:
<!DOCTYPE
html>
<html>
<body>
<p>The
pre tag preserves both spaces and line breaks:</p>
<pre>
My
Bonnie lies over the ocean.
My Bonnie lies over the sea.
My Bonnie lies over the ocean.
Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me.
</pre>
</body>
</html>
Output:
The pre tag preserves both spaces and line breaks:
My Bonnie lies over the ocean.
My
Bonnie lies over the sea.
My
Bonnie lies over the ocean.
Oh,
bring back my Bonnie to me.
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