matthew the reddit midwit.
he wants you to write like this.
so he doesn't get confused.
keep it tight, gents.
#8054
2 weeks ago
Those still aren't paragraphs. Tell me you failed english without telling me.
#8081
2 weeks ago
<p>A paragraph is more than just a linebreak. Its a style statement.
When Tim Berners Lee and his colleagues designed HTML, they included in it a tag to defy simple organizational choices. The paragraph is not merely a linebreak, that would be a <br> tag. Its not merely text, it doesn't even need to contain text; its an organizational category for ideas, for content itself.
Back in those days they didn't know about CSS and such, so paragraphs were simple, usually text, usually more or less all they had to set them apart was the linebreak inserted by the HTML parser. Nevertheless, the seed was there, which has now grown into all the complicated styling and decorating that modern web applies to that venerable category, the paragraph.
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When Tim Berners Lee and his colleagues designed HTML, they included in it a tag to defy simple organizational choices. The paragraph is not merely a linebreak, that would be a <br> tag. Its not merely text, it doesn't even need to contain text; its an organizational category for ideas, for content itself.
Back in those days they didn't know about CSS and such, so paragraphs were simple, usually text, usually more or less all they had to set them apart was the linebreak inserted by the HTML parser. Nevertheless, the seed was there, which has now grown into all the complicated styling and decorating that modern web applies to that venerable category, the paragraph.
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