Use a p tag for your paragraph and set a top margin. This will apply to all p tags on your page:-
Put this in a separate stylesheet or between <style type="text/css">....</style> tags in the head section:-
p { margin-top: 30px; }
and your body markup as:-
<p>Paragraph text</p>
If you only want the extra space above a few paragraphs, make a class:-
p.topmargin { margin-top: 30px; }
<p class="topmargin">Paragraph text</p>
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WIN7; IE9, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari for Windows; screen resolution usually 1366*768.
Also IE6 on W98 with 800*600 and IE8 on Vista 1440*900.