Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Paragraphs

How text loads on a page
How are blocks of text loaded on a page? lets take part of a Lorem Ipsum paragraph: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas." and load it three times. It will look like this: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas
 * NOTICE there is no separation of paragraphs. It all shows as one large paragraph.

How to keep paragraphs separated
There are a couple of ways to keep paragraphs separated: Line Breaks and Paragraph tags.

Line Breaks

 * Place a  "line break" tag between the paragraphs which is the same as hitting the enter key.  Here's the coding:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Fusce elementum efficitur faucibus. Curabitur eleifend quis ligula ac ullamcorper. Curabitur eget suscipit turpis.  Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Proin ac finibus odio. Nulla efficitur lorem odio, vitae commodo lacus rhoncus in. Nullam imperdiet dui ligula. Nulla varius congue urna, egestas molestie turpis tincidunt vitae.  Morbi sollicitudin blandit sapien, eget congue nisl mollis in. Mauris ultrices porta dui vel hendrerit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam a quam vulputate, luctus urna eget, molestie nisl. Praesent massa turpis, ullamcorper quis mi ac, faucibus convallis justo. Praesent vulputate lobortis est at facilisis.
 * Here's how the paragraphs now appear:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Fusce elementum efficitur faucibus. Curabitur eleifend quis ligula ac ullamcorper. Curabitur eget suscipit turpis. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Proin ac finibus odio. Nulla efficitur lorem odio, vitae commodo lacus rhoncus in. Nullam imperdiet dui ligula. Nulla varius congue urna, egestas molestie turpis tincidunt vitae. Morbi sollicitudin blandit sapien, eget congue nisl mollis in. Mauris ultrices porta dui vel hendrerit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam a quam vulputate, luctus urna eget, molestie nisl. Praesent massa turpis, ullamcorper quis mi ac, faucibus convallis justo. Praesent vulputate lobortis est at facilisis.
 * If you want more space between the paragraphs add more  tags.

Paragraph tags

 * Place a  "opening paragraph" tag and a   "closing paragraph" tag around the paragraphs:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Fusce elementum efficitur faucibus. Curabitur eleifend quis ligula ac ullamcorper. Curabitur eget suscipit turpis.

Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Proin ac finibus odio. Nulla efficitur lorem odio, vitae commodo lacus rhoncus in. Nullam imperdiet dui ligula. Nulla varius congue urna, egestas molestie turpis tincidunt vitae.

Morbi sollicitudin blandit sapien, eget congue nisl mollis in. Mauris ultrices porta dui vel hendrerit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam a quam vulputate, luctus urna eget, molestie nisl. Praesent massa turpis, ullamcorper quis mi ac, faucibus convallis justo. Praesent vulputate lobortis est at facilisis.

Here is how the text will look like now: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Fusce elementum efficitur faucibus. Curabitur eleifend quis ligula ac ullamcorper. Curabitur eget suscipit turpis. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Proin ac finibus odio. Nulla efficitur lorem odio, vitae commodo lacus rhoncus in. Nullam imperdiet dui ligula. Nulla varius congue urna, egestas molestie turpis tincidunt vitae. Morbi sollicitudin blandit sapien, eget congue nisl mollis in. Mauris ultrices porta dui vel hendrerit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam a quam vulputate, luctus urna eget, molestie nisl. Praesent massa turpis, ullamcorper quis mi ac, faucibus convallis justo. Praesent vulputate lobortis est at facilisis.
 * This is the preferred method to place paragraphs on a page.
 * NOTICE that there is more space around the individual paragraphs.
 * Another major reason we use this method is with these opening and closing  and   tags we can manipulate the text by making changes to the font or add background colors.  More coming on this topic.

Try these out


 Exercises
 * Copy and paste this paragraph: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Fusce elementum efficitur faucibus. Curabitur eleifend quis ligula ac ullamcorper. Curabitur eget suscipit turpis. Paste it three times in your sandbox.  Separate the paragraphs with two   between each one.
 * Then copy and paste the same paragraph three more times put  and   between each one.

Check your answers

 Quick Quiz
 * When you hit the enter button once it will automatically put a space between the paragraphs.
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * It is better to use  than   in separating paragraphs.
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * A  does not require an ending tag?
 * A. True
 * B. False

Check your answers