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Getting Started
One of the first things you will need to know how to do with
HTML is to create paragraphs, which is extremely simple to do.
This is done using <p>Paragraph Conent</p> tags. For example:
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<html>
<head>
<title>Example HTML Paragraph</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Creating a paragraph on a page could be done by
using code like this. As this code is placed above the
code below, it will appear as the first paragraph.</p>
<p>Again this is the second paragraph as this HTML
code is placed below the one above.</p>
</body>
</html>
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In HTML white space and new lines are ignored (in most cases) so in the example
above there could be formatted without as many of as little lines placed between
the code, the text would be formatted in the same way.
Aligning HTML Paragraphs
Depending on the document type you have defined for your HTML page (or none as
the case may be) the "align" attribute may or may not work. I will therefore
discuss how to align HTML paragraphs using the "style" attribute.
By default most browsers align HTML paragraphs to the left. For this reason you
must state when you want a paragraph to be aligned in other ways. As mentioned in
the previous paragraph this can be done using the "style" attribute. This attribute
is used for inline Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which will be discussed in more
depth later.
Examples of aligning paragraphs to the right / center are shown below. Note the
parts that are shown in bold as this is the part that is different from usual.
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<html>
<head>
<title>Example HTML Paragraph Alignment</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style = "text-align:right">
Putting paragraph contents within
these tags will make this
paragraph align to the right.</p>
<p style = "text-align:center">
And in the same way this content
will be aligned in the center of
the area it is placed in.</p>
</body>
</html>
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