The Paragraph element indicates a paragraph of text. No specification has ever attempted to define exactly the indentation of paragraph blocks and this may be a function of other elements, style sheets, etc.
Typically, paragraphs should be surrounded by a vertical space of between one and one and a half lines.. With some HTML user agents, the first line in a paragraph may be indented.
Example of use:
<H1>The Paragraph element</H1>
<P>The paragraph element is used to denote paragraph blocks</P>
<P>This would be the second paragraph.</P>
Included in the HTML 3.2 specification is the ability to align paragraphs.
Basically, the ALIGN=left|center|right attribute and values have been added to the <P> element.
e.g :
<P ALIGN=LEFT> ... </P>
All text with in the paragraph will be aligned to the left side of the page layout. This setting is equal to the default <P> element.
<P ALIGN=CENTER> ... </P>
All text within the paragraph will be aligned to the centre of the page. (c.f. <CENTER> ... </CENTER>)
<P ALIGN=RIGHT> ... </P>
All text will be aligned to the right side of the page.
<P> can also take the CLASS, ID and STYLE attributes to allow style sheet definitions to be applied to it. For more details of these attributes, see the Style Sheets topic.