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Question

You do not need to put an and tag to <p> or <br />. Also you can put <br> instead of <br />.

Answer 1

Wait: you need END tag for <p> ( means that it must be a closing </p> tag ), but no need for a shortener closing tag ( like <br/> which is a shortener for <br></br> on the specials tags who never have data in between the opening and closing tags -- ie: <br>, <hr>, <img>, ... ), just put the opening tag without closing tag ( browsers knows what kind of tag don't need a closing tag ), since you don't declare a XHTML doctype ( which required shortener form for these empty tags )