Paragraph

A paragraph is a group of related sentences that support a central idea.

Syntax

XDITA

<p>

HDITA

<p>

MDITA (core and extended profiles)

One or more consecutive lines of text, separated by one or more blank line.

Attributes

The available attributes vary based on the authoring format:

XDITA and HDITA
The following attributes are available on this element: ID attributes, localization attributes, universal attributes, and @props.
MDITA
There is no attribute support for the MDITA core profile. For the MDITA extended profile, attributes can be specified by using the HDITA representation.

HDITA attributes

Blah blah HDITA that is not reused from DITA spec

MDITA attributes

Blah blah MDITA that is not reused from DITA spec

Examples

This section is non-normative.

Example 1. XDITA example

The following example demonstrates the use of paragraph in an XDITA topic.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD LIGHTWEIGHT DITA Topic//EN" "lw-topic.dtd">
<topic id="franchise-intro">
  <title>An innovative, attractive, and out of the ordinary concept</title>
   <body>
    <p>We offer more than 30 exclusive creations of original rolls, from the California roll to sushi with BBQ chicken or grilled steak.</p>
  </body>
</topic>
Example 2. HDITA example

The following example demonstrates the use of paragraph in an HDITA topic.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>An innovative, attractive, and out of the ordinary concept</title>
<body>
  <article id="franchise-intro">
    <h1>An innovative, attractive, and out of the ordinary concept</h1>
    <p>We offer more than 30 exclusive creations of original rolls, from the California roll to sushi with BBQ chicken or grilled steak.</p>
  </article>
</body>
Example 3. MDITA example

The following example demonstrates the use of paragraph in an MDITA topic.

# An innovative, attractive, and out of the ordinary concept

We offer more than 30 exclusive creations of original rolls, from the California roll to sushi with BBQ chicken or grilled steak.