The p, short for paragraph, tag does exactly what the name implies: It creates a paragraph of text, and should be used when displalying substantial amounts of text on a webpage. The amount of space between paragraphs is up to the browser, but it seems to be some what standardized. Here is an example:

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

The result simply looks like this:

 

This is the first paragraph.

 

This is the second paragraph.

The align attribute

The align attribute allows you to specify how the text within the paragraph should be aligned. You can click on the link to see the possible values. Here's an example where we have aligned the text to the right:

 

Text aligned to the right!

 

However, the align attribute has been deprecated. You can achieve the exact same effect with CSS though, using the text-align property.

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