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Paragraph

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In typography, a paragraph is a block of text. Paragraphs are put on a new line and are usually indented, although not on many web sites, including Wikipedia. The paragraph symbol, the pilcrow, is ¶. In HTML, a new paragraph is created with the '<p>' tag, and the pilcrow symbol is &para;.

See also: statement block