4.3.17 p : Paragraph

The p tag is the paragraph tag. Every description text should be enclosed in a p tag. Only when there is only one paragraph (and no lists or tables or remarks) in a description node, then the p tag may be skipped.

Note that if a description node contains a table, pre, code or any list tag, then the text surrounding these tags must be put inside a p paragraph tag. This is dierent from the behaviour in HTML.

The paragraph tag must always have an opening tag and a closing tag, unlike html where only the opening tag may be present.

Example:

This is a paragraph which need not be surrounded by paragraph tags.

This is the first paragraph.

This is the second paragraph.

See also: table (148), dl (113), remark (142),code (107), ol (133),ul (159),ol (133)

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