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 Hypertext Skills Group 
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Paragraphs

 
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A paragraph is a piece of text bracketed by the markup notations <P> and </P>. When the text is displayed in the browser window only one space will be displayed between each word, no matter how many are present in the source code. The browser will also ignore carriage returns or line-breaks, inserting its own to best fit the display window. Line-breaks can be forced by using the markup notation <BR> within the paragraph. If two words must not be separated by a line-break, the special character "&nbsp;" should be used instead of a space. The character is called "Non-Breaking Space". 

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The behaviour of "<P>" can be modified by specifying the "ALIGN" attribute. They can be aligned on the left hand side of the screen using "ALIGN=Left". Left alignment is the default behaviour, so this specification can safely be omitted. 

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"ALIGN=Center" centres text on the screen. 

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"ALIGN=Right" lines text up on the right hand side of the screen. Not all browsers respect all the different ways of aligning a paragraph, so this may appear as left aligned text. 

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"ALIGN=Justify" lines text up on both sides of the screen. As with the other alignments, not all browsers will display justified text correctly, in which case they will default to left alignment, leaving the right hand edge ragged. 

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