Step #6


     With your page title firmly in place, you can now think about the text you want to appear in the body of the page. For the most part, you can simply type the text between the <BODY> and </BODY> tags, like so:

     <HTML>
     <HEAD>
     <TITLE>Welcome to Garry's Home Page</TITLE>
     </HEAD>
     <BODY>

This text appear in the body of the Web page:

     </BODY>
     </HTML>

     When you want to start a new paragraph, you have to use the <P> tag. For example, consider the following text:

     <HTML>
     <HEAD>
     <TITLE>Welcome to Garry's Home Page</TITLE>
     </HEAD>
     <BODY>
     This text appears in the body of the Web page.
     This is the second line (sort of).
     <P>
     This is the third line.
     </BODY>
     </HTML>

     The following figure shows how this looks in the browser. As you can see, the first two line appear beside each other, despite the pact that they're on separate lines in the original text. However, the third line sits nicely in its own paragraph thanks to the <P> tag that precedes it. I'll talk more about paragraphs and other ways to break up text in Chapter 4, "Laying the Foundation: The Basic Structure of a Web Page."


You need to use the <P> tag to create paragraph breaks in HTML.