<p>

The HTML <p> element represents a paragraph of text. Paragraphs are usually represented in visual media as blocks of text that are separated from adjacent blocks by vertical blank space and/or first-line indentation. Paragraphs are block-level elements.

Content categories	Flow content, palpable content.
Permitted content	Phrasing content.
Tag omission	The start tag is required. The end tag may be omitted if the <p> element is immediately followed by an <address>, <article>, <aside>, <blockquote>, <div>, <dl>, <fieldset>, <footer>, <form>, <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>, <header>, <hr>, <menu>, <nav>, <ol>, <pre>, <section>, <table>, <ul> or another <p> element, or if there is no more content in the parent element and the parent element is not an <a> element.
Permitted parents	Any element that accepts flow content.
Permitted ARIA roles	Any
DOM interface	HTMLParagraphElement

Attributes

This element includes the global attributes.

Example

<p>This is the first paragraph of text.
  This is the first paragraph of text.
  This is the first paragraph of text.
  This is the first paragraph of text.</p>
<p>This is the second paragraph.
 This is the second paragraph.
 This is the second paragraph.
 This is the second paragraph.</p>

The result of this code is:

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
WHATWG HTML Living Standard The definition of '<p>' in that specification.	Living Standard	No change since the latest W3C snapshot HTML5
HTML5 The definition of '<p>' in that specification.	Recommendation	align attribute is obsolete
HTML 4.01 Specification The definition of '<p>' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial definition

Browser compatibility

See also

• <hr>
• <br>