Hello;

I'm curious, should I break with a <p> tag or use the <br> tag for coding? Some say that the <p> tag is become deprecated? Dreamweaver is my program choice. All advice is appreciated. Thanks.

Ron

<p> on it's own works, but it's technicly invalid. For a line break you should use <br> (<br /> for XHTML) For a change of paragraph enclose each paragraph in <p></p> tags.

The reason is that <p> is Paragraph, therefore it should be

<p>This is a paragraph</p>
<p>This is another paragraph</p>

It's basically to section off the paragraphs. <br /> is a line break.

This is one line<br />This will be rendered on the next line down

In case you're wondering about the / in the <br /> tag:
Valid XHTML is based on XML. XML requires everything to have an opening tag <tag> and a closing tag </tag>. Some tags can be written shorthand - mainly tags where it wouldn't make sense to have something in it... like <br /> is a line break - it wouldn't make sence to have something 'in' a line break, so you shorten <br></br> to just <br />

I agree with Minaki. I was just reading an article about this. It said you are not supposed to use the paragraph tag for a line break. You are supposed to use the <br> tag.