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Quick poll: <p>, <p/>, or <p></p>

Do you write paragraph tags in HTML like this:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
<p>
The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
<p>
Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.

Or do you always close them between paragraphs, like this:

Sixty zippers were quickly picked from the woven jute bag.
<p/>
A quart jar of oil mixed with zinc oxide makes a very bright paint.
<p/>
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.

Or do you enclose the paragraph itself, like this:

<p>
  Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
</p>
<p>
  How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.
</p>
<p>
  Jinxed wizards pluck ivy from the big quilt.
</p>

Just thinking about the history of HTML…