"AaronD" wrote in message
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The br tag is self closing. You only need one: br /
But the p tag is NOT. The p tag always has a beginning tag p and text
between then close it with /p.
So when Outlook just uses the p tag only, they are not using the HTML
language properly.

I looked at the HTML standards on line. /p is not required if the
paragraph is enclosed in another block element like div.../div or when
followed by another element. By definition, an element closes all
preceeding unclosed start tags up to the matching start tag. This is from
the HTML V4.0 specification.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]