<p>Here's some text surrounded by paragraph tags.</p>
<p>There's a blank space between each line of text.</p>
<p>Use paragraph tags to keep paragraphs together.</p>

Here's some text surrounded by paragraph tags.

There's a blank space between each line of text.

Use paragraph tags to keep paragraphs together.

<p>If you want to start a new line, but without the blank space in between...<br />
...use a line break tag. (Actually, to be fully compliant, use &lt;br /&gt;.)</p>

If you want to start a new line, but without the blank space in between...
...use a line break tag. (Actually, to be fully compliant, use <br />.)

<p style="font-size:small">Here's some styled text.</p>

<p style="color:#FF0000">This text is red!</p>

<p style="font-style:italic">Text in italics</p>

Here's some styled text.

This text is red!

Text in italics

<p>Use span tags <span style="font-weight:bold; color:#006600">to change text styles</span> within a paragraph.</p>

<p>You can even <span style="color:#000099">embed <span style="font-size:x-large">span tags</span> within a</span> paragraph.</p>

Use span tags to change text styles within a paragraph.

You can even embed span tags within a paragraph.