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P is for Paragraph <p>The paragraph is the workhorse of a text-based website. Things to remember. Between the opening <p> and closing </p> tags the browser will only recognise a single white space (one spacebar click) between characters. If you want more you need to use the non-breaking space entity ( either by name - - or by number -   ) in your source code as many times as you want white spaces. There is also the in-line break element <br> which is used without a closing tag </br> in HTML but with one in XHTML. The difference is this. When word processing you hit the return key once to go to the next line (in HTML use <br>). You hit it twice to go to a new paragraph (in HTML use <p>). But in Dreamweaver, for some reason, when you hit the return key in Design mode (WYSIWYG) it does a double carriage return, i.e. creates a new paragraph. Nvu, an excellent and totally free cross-platform web authoring tool, works more like a word processor - or should I say even more like a word processing programme. When you have bodytext selected in the format drop down menu, the return key does a line break <br>; when paragraph is selected it starts a new paragraph. [The people behind Nvu, Linspire, are committed to "bringing Desktop Linux to the masses". Nice to know the Revolution is still alive and doing good work in cyberspace!]
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