Holy wall of text, Batman!
You know, it's interesting - for all the thousands of posts I've made over more than a decade - and for all the successful uses I've made of the <p> tag over the years, I've never really understood its behavior.The only way I can make it work is to follow every incidence of the <p> tag immediately with a "return" keystroke. And yet whenever I use the FR spell check, it reformats the text and in the process will embed <p> tags differently and still will produce the paragraph break effect. I gave up trying to figure out what it was doing that I wasn't, a long time ago . . .