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Learning HTML: Block Formatting

Block Formatting elements are the most common elements in an HTML document.  We'll look at some paragraph formatting tags first.

Paragraph

We've already demonstrated <p> in our Basic Template.  A normal paragraph has a single blank line after it, will ignore line breaks in the text, and condense multiple spaces in the text into a single space.  The closing </p> tag isn't necessary, whenever the browser runs into a new block formatting tag, it will understand that the previous paragraph has ended.

Forced Line Break

The <BR> tag is used to force line breaks within text.  There is no closing tag.  Normally, line breaks are treated as a space by browsers (except inside the <PRE> tag).

<P>The text will break<BR>right here.

The text will break
right here.

Preformatted Text

<pre>
....|....1....|....2....|....3....|....4
Used to include sections of text in 
which formatting is critical.  Text will
only be wrapped at the line-breaks in 
the source, and spaces will not be col-
lapsed.  Text inside this tag will be 
displayed in a monospaced font.

</pre>

Large Quotations

<blockquote cite="http://somewhere.com">Used when more than a few lines from a document are being quoted. Block quotations are often rendered indented.  The cite attribute is a URL to the original document.</blockquote>

Horizontal Rule

The last Block Formatting element we'll learn in this chapter.  A horizontal rule (just below the text "Jump to top"), <hr>, is typically used to separate sections within a document.

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