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Posted by Jason Choi
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Jason Choi
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,159 Points

Do paragraph tags need closing tags?

I've noticed there's no closing tag in the paragraph block. There's only a <p> tag but not </P>. I thought all tags need closing tags. Do I need to add a closing tag to a paragraph?

1 Answer

Bryce Santos
Bryce Santos
11,157 Points 
<p>I always including ending tags for p tags</p>
Bryce Santos
Bryce Santos
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BUT it's not necessary for HTML where as it IS for XHTML. It's overall good practice and it could prevent potential bugs in the code because of not closing it.

Jason Choi
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Jason Choi
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,159 Points

Thank you Bryce!