><P> is not a container object, so there is no </P>. You can throw it
>in, and most browsers won't mind. It's not a required element, though.
> <P> is just a paragraph seperator, not a container.
Actually, according to the DTD, <P> is a container--it contains text.
The terminating </P> is optional, but in HTML 3 it will be more useful.
In HTML 3, <P> can have attributes, like:
<P ALIGN=RIGHT>
This is a paragraph that I want allingned to the right side of
the page.
</P>
<P NOWRAP>
This one has word-wrapping turned off, because it's really, really long!
</P>
<P>
This one is normal and will probably never bother anyone.
</P>
Those are instances where the terminator will make sense. And it's
already implemented in Netscape 2.0 and some other browsers.
But technically, <p> is a container.
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