paragraph tag not closed?

Question

I simplified my html code down to this

    

        
Who are         


        
      

Answer 1

There's a fixed set of elements, belonging to Phrasing content category, that can be children of

element:

Phrasing content is the text of the document, as well as elements that mark up that text at the intra-paragraph level. Runs of phrasing content form paragraphs.

a abbr area (if it is a descendant of a map element) audio b bdi bdo br button 
canvas cite code data datalist del dfn em embed i iframe img input ins
kbd keygen label map mark math meter noscript object output 
progress q ruby s samp script select small span strong sub sup svg
template textarea time u var video wbr Text

element, as many other block-level ones, doesn't belong here. In this case,

element closes automatically. Quoting the docs:

A p element's end tag may be omitted if the p element is immediately followed by an address, article, aside, blockquote, div, dl, fieldset, footer, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, header, hgroup, hr, main, nav, ol, p, pre, section, table, or ul, element, or if there is no more content in the parent element and the parent element is not an a element.

In this particular case, the structure of DOM is as follows:

Who are we?
wersfgse

... and, as you can see, the end tag isn't really welcome. Actually, you should be grateful for Firefox DOM Inspector marking this error. )