Adding Paragraphs

Paragraphs are managed using the paragraph element, represented by an opening and closing tag <p>. . .</p>, with text content in between (see Example 2-2).

Example 2-2. Marking up paragraphs with an opening and closing tag

<p>Mentally, too, they were almost moribund. They stared vacantly, straight out to sea.
 They stared with the unwinking fixedness of those whose gaze is caught in hypnotic trance.</p>

<p>It was Frank Merrill who broke the silence finally. Merrill still looked like a man of
 marble and his voice still kept its unnatural tone, level, monotonous, metallic.</p>

Figure 2-2 shows how the paragraphs will appear within a web browser. You'll note that all the necessary carriage returns are handled when the browser interprets the paragraph tags.

plus a line before the ensuing content.