But there are, in fact, 140ish named tags other than the one named "p", so maybe we'd better figure out why. The thing, is "p" literally means "paragraph" - that's what it stands for, it's only one letter long because back when the first web page was created, the "aragraph" would've taken a long time to send - but that meaning is honestly mostly important because of the vibes that it imparts; or, what people with big fancy brains call its semantic meaning. In practice, we can bend space and time and use \<p> elements for all kinds of stuff, but the fact is, we've used a tag named "paragraph", we'd better have a pretty paragraphy use for it, or else we're writing confusing code. And in accordance with this semantic meaning, browsers display paragraphs a certain way. They have black text in a proper-looking serif font at a medium font size, and, if you have multiple paragraphs, each is displayed below the previous one with a gap between them. It's very paragraphy.
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