Newbie's Guide to Web Design - Lesson 3
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Newbie's Guide to Web Design

HTML Lesson 3

Paragraphs

When we are typing a letter or document to someone we have become so accustom to punctuation that we do it naturally without even knowing it. In html the way to break up your text that is displayed on your page is to use paragraph tags <p> and Line break tags <br>.

When a line break in is your page it tells the browser to end the current line and go to the next one. And when you use a paragraph tag it tells the browser to end the current line and inserts a blank line before inserting the next line or object. An end </p> or a </br> tag is not necessary. Let's take a look at how they work.

Open your document and in the body type a line of text and at the end of the line put a <br> tag, then type another line of text with <br> at the end of it and hit save and reload your browser.

Now lets use the <p> tag, the <p> tag should be placed where you want for a blank line to appear, now in the body, type a line of text such as "This is my first paragraph" without quotes, and just above that line place the <p> tag and hit save then reload your browser.

The line breaks can go before or after the line of text that you are typing. The paragraph tags need to precede the paragraph. Here's an example of what we should have so far:

<html>

<head>

<title>Brett's first web page</title>

<head>

<body>

This is the Body of my First Web Page<br>
This is the second line of my page<br>
<p>

This is my first paragraph

</body>

</html>

Now let's move on to Lesson 4 Bulleted lists.

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