Activity 4

Paragraph Tag

Inserting Paragraph Breaks

Follow the directions below to insert and view a paragraph break in your HTML document.

1. Re-open your workspace (if not already opened).
2. Go to the text editor window.
3. Open your working document, volc.html, in the text editor (if not already opened).
4. First we want to move the sentences ("A volcano is .....") so that they are under the Introduction heading. Use the mouse to cut and paste this text in the proper location.
5. After these sentences, we want to add some more text. But rather than re-typing this in, from this web page use your mouse to select and copy the sentences:

   
        Volcanoes have been a part of earth's history
        long before humans. Compare the history of human 
        beings, a few million years in the making, to that of 
        the Earth, over four billion years in the making. 
   
   

6. Now, return to your HTML document in the text editor, and paste this text after the existing sentences under the <h2>Introduction</h2> heading.
7. Save the changes in the text editor.
8. Return to your web browser.
9. If your working document is not visible, Use the Open Local... command from the File menu to open the document.
10. Select Reload from the File menu. You should now see the two sentences of the Introduction. We now want to put a paragraph break between these sentences.
11. Again, return to your HTML document in the text editor.
12. After the second sentence under <h2>Introduction</h2> (the one that ends " as a sticky, slow lava flow."), press RETURN (it is not necessary but it makes the HTML more readable as you work on it), and then enter the paragraph tag:

         <p>
    
    

    This section should now look like:

      <h2>Introduction</h2>
      A volcano is a location where magma, 
      or hot melted rock from within a planet, reaches the surface. 
      It may happen violently, in a massive supersonic explosion, 
      or more quietly, as a sticky, slow lava flow.
      <p>
      Volcanoes have been a part of earth's history long before
      humans. Compare the history of human beings, a few million
      years in the making, to that of the Earth, over four
      billion years in the making.
    

13. Save the changes in the text editor.
14. Return to your web browser and Reload the document. The two sentences of the introduction should now be separate paragraphs.