# Paragraphs

A sequence of non-blank lines that cannot be interpreted as other kinds of blocks forms a paragraph. The contents of the paragraph are the result of parsing the paragraph’s raw content as inlines. The paragraph’s raw content is formed by concatenating the lines and removing initial and final whitespace.
A simple example with two paragraphs:

aaa

bbb

<p>aaa</p>
<p>bbb</p>

Paragraphs can contain multiple lines, but no blank lines:

aaa
bbb

ccc
ddd

<p>aaa
bbb</p>
<p>ccc
ddd</p>

Multiple blank lines between paragraph have no effect:

aaa


bbb

<p>aaa</p>
<p>bbb</p>

Leading spaces are skipped:

  aaa
 bbb

<p>aaa
bbb</p>

Lines after the first may be indented any amount, since indented code blocks cannot interrupt paragraphs.

aaa
             bbb
                                       ccc

<p>aaa
bbb
ccc</p>

However, the first line may be indented at most three spaces, or an indented code block will be triggered:

   aaa
bbb

<p>aaa
bbb</p>

    aaa
bbb

<pre><code>aaa
</code></pre>
<p>bbb</p>

Final spaces are stripped before inline parsing, so a paragraph that ends with two or more spaces will not end with a hard line break:

aaa     
bbb     

<p>aaa<br />
bbb</p>