Basic syntax question

[paracosm]

I'm completely new to programming. Improve the following:
<p><b>Blah</b>
<br>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah


I thought something like this would work, but it leaves a huge space between the header and the paragraph. I don't want that:
<h1>Blah</h1>
<p> blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

 

[c1lonewolf]

1. HTML is a formatting language not a programming one.
2. The space you see are browser default settings which can be over-ridden by inline styles or stylesheets
as shown above.
3. Always use closing tags on elements that are not considered "empty" elements.

<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<p>Continuos running paragraph text. Continuos running
paragraph text. More paragraph text. Even more paragraph
text.</p>