<p> (Paragraph)

This element specifies a paragraph of content in the document.

The contents of a paragraph in a WordprocessingML document shall consist of any combination of the following four types of content:

  • Paragraph properties

  • Annotations (bookmarks, comments, revisions)

  • Custom markup

  • Run level content (fields, hyperlinks, runs)

example: 
<w:document>
  <w:body>
    <w:p>
      <w:r>
        <w:t>Text</w:t>
      </w:r>
      <w:fldSimple w:instr="AUTHOR">
        <w:r>
          <w:t>Author Name</w:t>
        </w:r>
      </w:fldSimple>
    </w:p>
  </w:body>
</w:document>

The <p> element is the container for all of the content in the paragraph, which in this example includes both a text run and a simple field. ]

Parent Elements

<body> (§2.2.2); <comment> (§2.13.4.2); <customXml> (§2.5.1.6); <docPartBody> (§2.12.6); <endnote> (§2.11.2); <footnote> (§2.11.10); <ftr> (§2.10.3); <hdr> (§2.10.4); <sdtContent> (§2.5.2.32); <tc> (§2.4.62); <txbxContent> (§2.17.1.1)

Child Elements

Subclause

<bookmarkEnd> (Bookmark End)

§2.13.6.1

<bookmarkStart> (Bookmark Start)

§2.13.6.2

<commentRangeEnd> (Comment Anchor Range End)

§2.13.4.3

<commentRangeStart> (Comment Anchor Range Start)

§2.13.4.4

<customXml> (Inline-Level Custom XML Element)

§2.5.1.5

<customXmlDelRangeEnd> (Custom XML Markup Deletion End)

§2.13.5.4

<customXmlDelRangeStart> (Custom XML Markup Deletion Start)

§2.13.5.5

<customXmlInsRangeEnd> (Custom XML Markup Insertion End)

§2.13.5.6

<customXmlInsRangeStart> (Custom XML Markup Insertion Start)

§2.13.5.7

<customXmlMoveFromRangeEnd> (Custom XML Markup Move Source End)

§2.13.5.8

<customXmlMoveFromRangeStart> (Custom XML Markup Move Source Start)

§2.13.5.9

<customXmlMoveToRangeEnd> (Custom XML Markup Move Destination Location End)

§2.13.5.10

<customXmlMoveToRangeStart> (Custom XML Markup Move Destination Location Start)

§2.13.5.11

<del> (Deleted Run Content)

§2.13.5.12

<fldSimple> (Simple Field)

§2.16.21

<hyperlink> (Hyperlink)

§2.16.24

<ins> (Inserted Run Content)

§2.13.5.20

<moveFrom> (Move Source Run Content)

§2.13.5.21

<moveFromRangeEnd> (Move Source Location Container - End)

§2.13.5.23

<moveFromRangeStart> (Move Source Location Container - Start)

§2.13.5.24

<moveTo> (Move Destination Run Content)

§2.13.5.26

<moveToRangeEnd> (Move Destination Location Container - End)

§2.13.5.27

<moveToRangeStart> (Move Destination Location Container - Start)

§2.13.5.28

<oMath> (Office Math)

§7.1.2.77

<oMathPara> (Math Paragraph)

§7.1.2.78

<permEnd> (Range Permission End)

§2.13.7.1

<permStart> (Range Permission Start)

§2.13.7.2

<pPr> (Paragraph Properties)

§2.3.1.26

<proofErr> (Proofing Error Anchor)

§2.13.8.1

<r> (Text Run)

§2.3.2.23

<sdt> (Inline-Level Structured Document Tag)

§2.5.2.29

<smartTag> (Inline-Level Smart Tag)

§2.5.1.9

<subDoc> (Anchor for Subdocument Location)

§2.17.2.1

Attributes

Description

<rsidDel> (Revision Identifier for Paragraph Deletion)

Specifies a unique identifier used to track the editing session when the paragraph was deleted from the main document.

All @rsid* attributes throughout this document with the same value, if present, must indicate that those regions were modified during the same editing session (time between subsequent save actions).

A producer may choose to increment the revision save ID value to indicate subsequent editing sessions to indicate the order of the modifications relative to other modifications in this document.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_LongHexNumber simple type (§2.18.57).

<rsidP> (Revision Identifier for Paragraph Properties)

This attribute specifies a unique identifier used to track the editing session when the paragraph's properties were last modified in this document.

All @rsid* attributes throughout this document with the same value, if present, must indicate that those regions were modified during the same editing session (time between subsequent save actions).

A producer may choose to increment the revision save ID value to indicate subsequent editing sessions to indicate the order of the modifications relative to other modifications in this document.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_LongHexNumber simple type (§2.18.57).

<rsidR> (Revision Identifier for Paragraph)

This attribute specifies a unique identifier used to track the editing session when the paragraph was added to the main document.

All @rsid* attributes throughout this document with the same value, if present, must indicate that those regions were modified during the same editing session (time between subsequent save actions).

A producer may choose to increment the revision save ID value to indicate subsequent editing sessions to indicate the order of the modifications relative to other modifications in this document.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_LongHexNumber simple type (§2.18.57).

<rsidRDefault> (Default Revision Identifier for Runs)

This attribute specifies a unique identifier used for all runs in this paragraph which do not explicitly declare an @rsidR attribute. This attribute allows consumers to optimize the locations where @rsid* values are written in this document.

All @rsid* attributes throughout this document with the same value, if present, must indicate that those regions were modified during the same editing session (time between subsequent save actions).

A producer may choose to increment the revision save ID value to indicate subsequent editing sessions to indicate the order of the modifications relative to other modifications in this document.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_LongHexNumber simple type (§2.18.57).

<rsidRPr> (Revision Identifier for Paragraph Glyph Formatting)

This attribute specifies a unique identifier used to track the editing session when the glyph character representing the paragraph mark was last modified in the main document.

All @rsid* attributes throughout this document with the same value, if present, must indicate that those regions were modified during the same editing session (time between subsequent save actions).

A producer may choose to increment the revision save ID value to indicate subsequent editing sessions to indicate the order of the modifications relative to other modifications in this document.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_LongHexNumber simple type (§2.18.57).

The following XML Schema fragment defines the contents of this element:

<complexType name="CT_P">
	<sequence>
	<element name="pPr" type="CT_PPr" minOccurs="0"/>
	<group ref="EG_PContent" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
	</sequence>
	<attribute name="rsidRPr" type="ST_LongHexNumber"/>
	<attribute name="rsidR" type="ST_LongHexNumber"/>
	<attribute name="rsidDel" type="ST_LongHexNumber"/>
	<attribute name="rsidP" type="ST_LongHexNumber"/>
	<attribute name="rsidRDefault" type="ST_LongHexNumber"/>
</complexType>