emacs html mode

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

The functions in emacs' html mode generally insert both open and close
tags. An exception is html-paragraph (C-c RET), which only inserts <p>
(no close tag).

Is there some reason emacs doesn't insert close paragraph tags? I
thought html required them and browsers just ignored their absence.

I know that I could modify html-paragraph, but I'm trying to
understand why it does what it does.

Tia.

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>