A number of basic tags allow an HTML page to be formatted, much in the same way that word processors format documents.

As you know, the paragraph tag starts a new paragraph and is the equivalent of two <br> tags. Remembering to include the closing paragraph tag </p> is crucial both to the validity of the code as well as to the formatting of the page.

An attribute provides a tag with further specification regarding the way it affects the display of content. The majority of attributes will be followed by an equal sign, followed by a numerical or textual value.

Anything that appears immediately after an equal sign MUST BE EMBEDDED IN QUOTES.

Attributes are placed in the opening section of a tag and do not appear in the closing section of that tag.

Most browsers left-justify a new paragraph by default. To modify this behavior, HTML 4 and XHTML provide the align attribute for the <p> tag. The paragraph-alignment attribute (left, right, justify or center) defines the alignment of a paragraph on the screen.

Specifically, the align attribute controls the horizontal position of text within the paragraph tag <p>.

Left - Left alignment/justification.
Aligns the paragraph flush with the left margin.

Center - Center alignment/justification.
Aligns the paragraph center to your page.

Right - Right alignment/justification.
Aligns the paragraph flush with the right margin.

Justify - Double justification. Aligns the paragraph flush with both the right and left margins.
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Paragraph alignment can be manipulated by including one of the attributes within the <p> tag as shown below:

HTML code:

<p align="left"> This paragraph is left-aligned. </p>

<p align="center"> This paragraph is center-aligned. </p>

<p align="right"> This paragraph is right-aligned. </p>

<p align="justify">
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