<p> begins a paragraph

Paragraph tags are the most common and user-friendly of all the HTML tags. Inserted at the beginning of each paragraph, the <p> tag skips a line before each block of text. There's no need to close off the <p> tag with a </p>.

The HTML for two plain-old paragraphs will look something like this:

<p>Did it ever occur to you that if every student in your whole school decided not to show up one day, there's really nothing the school could do about it?

<p>I mean, if <i>everybody</i> stayed home, they wouldn't be able to punish any particular student too harshly - it would probably take them all day just to try to call everyone's parents.

They'll appear like this:

Did it ever occur to you that if every student in your whole school decided not to show up one day, there's really nothing the school could do about it?

I mean, if everybody stayed home, they wouldn't be able to punish any particular student too harshly - it would take them all day just to try to call everyone's parents.