Spacing between text [HTML code]

I hope this is the right place to ask my doubt. If not, please, could a moderator move it to the proper place? Thank you.

OK. This is my doubt. It's related to HTML code. A family member created a personal blog (blogspot), but, the spacing between the different paragraphs in one same post is quite huge. Something like:

My family member asked if I understand HMTL, which I just know a little bit. I looked at the HTML code, regarding the posts part, but, what ever I change just won't do it.
I googled for it for a while now, but so far nothing.

So, I remembered to type the text in HTML mode. Something like:

But, it stays the same as before.

Is there some code I can place at both beginning and end of a paragraph, so that the spacing gets shorter?


Thanks

Edit: I replaced the <p> and </pg> with <br> and <br /> and it shorted the spacing a bit, but, wouldn't there be some other option?

 

You can run tidy, it will remove the excess whitespaces and nicely indent your code.

http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

And:

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

Mrk

 

I showed my family member to see if the <br> HTML tag did the trick or not for him, and he likes it more as it is than before.

But, I will, for sure, take a look at both your suggestions, even if to learn myself. Time to evolve, I guess!


Thank you both.