- From: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 11:10:28 -0700
- To: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www10.w3.org>
"David R. Rahbany" <drahbany@ctea.com> wrote: > Please excuse my ignorance, but I'd like clarification > on the "<P>" element. Does this tag denote an _end_ of > paragraph mark or a _begining/new_ paragraph mark? A "P" element denotes _a_ paragraph; the start-tag "<P>" marks the start of the paragraph and the end-tag "</P>" marks the end of the paragraph. > In > other words, which of the following should appear in a > proper HTML document? > > <P>This is a paragraph. > > or > > This is a paragraph<P> The first -- with the start-tag at the beginning. A note on terminology: the word "tag" refers to the markup itself-- for example, the sequence of characters less-than-symbol, forward-slash, capital P, greater-than-symbol is a "tag" (in this case an end-tag). The word "element" refers to everything between a start-tag and its corresponding end-tag. To further confuse things, some elements like "P", "DT", "DD", and "LI" allow the end-tag to be omitted. and the parser is supposed to figure out where the element ends based on the context. --Joe English jenglish@crl.com
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