title: Why can't I use <p>&nbsp;</p>?
body: <p>I can't find a convincing answer for this. Is it wrong in terms of semantic HTML? SEO unfriendly? Accessibility? </p>
  
  <p>A lot of WYSIWYG editors use it. I think it is a good way to add some extra space between paragraphs, like you do when you're writing a document and want to express 'extra differentiation' between 2 specific paragraphs. Of course you can do that with CSS, but you need to add extra classes like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p class="extra-space"&gt;
    Some text
  &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;
    Other topic
  &lt;/p&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm sure this is not a problem for screen readers. And semantics … why an 'empty paragraph' has not a valid meaning by itself?</p>