Your browser will try to fill up every available line with text if you let it. Say you wanted to give your address on your page. You type:
Joe Smith
Any Street
Any Town, State 00000
This is how you expect it to be shown but your browser will put it all on one line if it can, like this:
Joe Smith Any Street Any Town, State 00000
To tell your browser to format the text as you wish you have to put in line breaks. The tag for line breaks is:
<BR>
A tag would have to be placed after every line of the above address in order for it to appear as you wish. The line break tag does not occur as a pair.
Summary
ΓÇóParagraph and line break tags are ways to format the text in your page.
ΓÇóThese tags do not occur in pairs.
Let's put paragraph and line break tags in your page.