[LearningCoder]

This will work, checked in Firebug showing the text within a <p>.

echo '<p>Welcome back ' . $_SESSION['username'] . '!</p>';

Or, you can define the <p> to have a class, then just style it in your CSS file:

echo "<p class='message'>Welcome back ".$user."!</p>";

//then in your CSS file do this:

.message
{
//your styles
}

Regards,

LC.