RE: When to use <p></p>

At 08:44 pm 12/18/95 TZ, you wrote:
>| From: Chuck Foster  <chuck@pipex.net>
>| 2. <p>..</p> mixed with <ul>..</ul> etc
>| One of the things that I get confused over is when to use </p>, if at
>| all.

><P> is not a container object, so there is no </P>.  You can throw it 
>in, and most browsers won't mind.  It's not a required element, though. 
> <P> is just a paragraph seperator, not a container.

   Actually, according to the DTD, <P> is a container--it contains text. 
The terminating </P> is optional, but in HTML 3 it will be more useful. 

   In HTML 3, <P> can have attributes, like: 

<P ALIGN=RIGHT>
This is a paragraph that I want allingned to the right side of 
the page.
</P>

<P NOWRAP>
This one has word-wrapping turned off, because it's really, really long!
</P>

<P>
This one is normal and will probably never bother anyone. 
</P>

   Those are instances where the terminator will make sense. And it's 
already implemented in Netscape 2.0 and some other browsers. 

   But technically, <p> is a container. 


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Received on Tuesday, 19 December 1995 00:07:33 UTC