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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Jeff Gaines wrote:

> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>> On 02/10/2011 in message <4e889326$0$5371$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net> 
>>> Linus Flustillbe wrote:
>>>> or we could use a <p> to force a paragraph switch.
>>>> Thanks all for your help, I have it working now.
>>> Don't forget you should close a <p> tag with </p>
>> I have never seen that ever in any source
> 
> Really?
> 
> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_p.asp

W3Schools can be safely and must be strongly recommended against for use as 
a reliable resource on Web development.  When in doubt, consult the official 
Specifications:

<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#edef-P>

However, the P/p element does have an _end_ tag, and it is a good idea to 
use it so that the paragraph will be delimited *explicitly*.  In XHTML, it 
is mandatory anyway, as XHTML is an application of XML and well-formedness 
requires either an end tag or SHORTTAG syntax (as below).

> That would be an advantage of using <br /> for the OP.

<br /> is XHTML SHORTTAG (not considering HTML SHORTTAG, which is widely 
disregarded by browsers); <br>, <bR>, <Br> or <BR> is HTML.  PHP has the 
nl2br() function to make printing newlines as BR/br elements in (X)HTML 
easier.

BR/br usually suffices for debugging purposes.  However, semantics are 
important: If the intention is to make a paragraph, use the P/p element; if 
it is to make an unconditional *line break* *within* *a* *text* *paragraph*, 
use the BR/br element.


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