Why do web paragraphs break, while print paragraphs indent?
Both indentations and line breaks create a strong disruption that signals "this is a new paragraph" to the user.
Question: Several decades into web browsers becoming a major form of communication, web browsers use new lines for each paragraph, while printed books and magazines still use indentations. Certainly e-books are often printed as paper-books, and printing houses want to save paper by condensing the number of pages printed. Why wasn't the <p>
tag developed to also use an indentation?
Author Erika Hall on Medium, using line-break paragraphs:
Author Erika Hall in her e-Book, Just Enough Research: