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Kevin Alvarez
4,851 PointsParagraph tags in Javascript
Why is necessary to use paragraph tags in his print function? Why not just use the document.write( ) method with string quotation marks instead of using the tags, when you need to print something on to the page?
4 Answers
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 PointsThe paragraph starts a new line. Just printing spaces doesn't.
john larson
16,594 PointsHi, I believe the answer is...it's NOT necessary. As far as the p tags vs no tags: The p tags or li tags will come with certain styles that may help the look of what's being printed. Without any tags, a line of text may just run on. A p tag will break the line up and add some padding or margin (I forget which). An li tag will break the line up, maybe add a bullet but I think no padding or margin.
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsThe paragraph tags help add some HTML into your JS scripts. You can then target the output HTML with CSS selectors to display the text how you want.
The paragraph tag in your string will put the text on a new line but you can also do this with the \n escape character.
Kevin Alvarez
4,851 PointsAlright i get it now, thanks for the help everybody.