HTML: The Markup Language

pparagraph # T

The p element represents a paragraph.

Permitted content #

Permitted attributes #

Additional constraints and admonitions #

Tag omission #

A p element must have a start tag.

A p element’s end tag may be omitted if the p element is immediately followed by an address, article, aside, blockquote, dir, div, dl, fieldset, footer, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, header, hr, menu, nav, ol, p, pre, section, table, or ul element, or if there is no more content in the parent element and the parent element is not an a element.

Permitted parent elements #

any element that can contain flow elements

DOM interface #

interface HTMLParagraphElement : HTMLElement {};

Typical default display properties #

p {
display: block;
margin: 1.0em 0px; }