Creating paragraph spacing in css?

I'm sure this is really simple, but I can't see it. How do you create a CSS style that includes parameters for paragraph spacing? I see line spacing and word spacing, but nothing for paragraph.

Work with margins on the <p> tag.

Bear in mind that successive margins will collapse. In other words, if
you set the top margin for <p> to be 50px, and the bottom margin to be
60px, two <p>s in a pod... I mean two consecutive <p>s will not have
100px (bottom of <p> 1 60px + top of <p> 2 50px = 110px) but will have
their margins collapse to the larger of the two, in this case 60px.

--
James M. Shook
http://www.jshook.com

James Shook wrote:


Eeek! Typo:

two consecutive <p>s will not have
110px (bottom of <p> 1 60px + top of <p> 2 50px = 110px) but will have
their margins collapse to the larger of the two, in this case 60px.

--
James M. Shook
http://www.jshook.com

.oO(TomHuffman)

I'm sure this is really simple, but I can't see it. How do you create a
CSS style that includes parameters for paragraph spacing? I see line
spacing and word spacing, but nothing for paragraph.

HTML:

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>And this another.</p>

CSS:

p {margin: 1em 0} /* This seems to be the default in many browsers. */

Micha