I'm still not understanding something that may well be important.
Could someone tell me where to look to find out why </p> is used
at all? I've never been able to see any difference whatsoever in the appearance of a file when I delete all the </p>s.
In HTML as child of SGML you may leave them out as short cut, but not each HTML parser is a real SGML parser, so they do not implement short cuts.
I think what I'm wondering is what a parser that didn't deal with short cuts would do with my HTML page that has no </p> on it. I don't understand why <p> should be any different from <br> -- which, unless I'm missing something big time, doesn't have a </br> associated with it. What is it that </p> _does_, or _enables_?
<p>...</p> are a delimiting pair of tags -- the text between is handled as a paragraph. Paragraphs are an element of the document, just as <body>...</body> or <div>...</div> are. All of these elements have content.
<br> (or more strictly, as noted elsewhere, <br/>) does not have content; it's more analogous to an entity such as —. It signals a special sort of content -- in this case, a hard break -- that can't be specified in plain text. <br> *is* content (like <hr> or <img>).
-- Michael Cowperthwaite
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