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Melina Caroline Bernard
Melina Caroline Bernard

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Paragraphs & breaks in HTML

•<p>..</p> is used to create

•Usually, manual breaks inside paragraph is ignored by the browser when showing the web page

Example 👇🏻

<p>Hey there!
Come learn frontend with me.
Let's learn
HTML basics.</p>

Eventhough I typed the paragraph in several lines,

The output will be👇🏻

Hey there!Come learn frontend with me.Let's learn HTML basics.

•To actually insert a line break in the output, you need to use <br>

Example 👇🏻
<p>Hey there! <br>
Come learn frontend with me.
Let's learn <br>
HTML basics.</p>

Output 👇🏻
Hey there!
Come learn frontend with me.Let's learn
HTML basics.

💡Fun Fact
<br> tag is one of the examples for empty tags.
Remember we discussed earlier?
Empty tag means, they don't need a closing tag : )

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