Paragraph

1. In general refers to a new section of text that is separated by an empty line and in many cases has the first line indented. Often a new paragraph is created when talking about a different subject, time changes, or setting changes.

This is an example of a new paragraph of text. As can be seen this line is indented with five spaces or a tab and helps break up all the text in this document.

Paragraph symbol2. A paragraph symbol or pilcrow is a formatting mark that helps represent the end of a paragraph. In the picture to the right, is an example of a paragraph symbol. For this symbol to be displayed in your document, formatting marks must be enabled.

3. In HTML a paragraph is created by surrounding text with the <p></p> tags.

Also see: Block of text, Formatting mark, Line break, Paragraph formatting