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HTML Element: <br>

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The HTML <br> element indicates a single line break (c.f. a carriage return). In XHTML, it needs to be ‘properly’ closed as per <br />.

 

The attributes it can take are HTML global attributes and HTML event attributes.

 

To create or access such an element in JavaScript see here. The corresponding HTML DOM object supports standard DOM properties and methods. The default style applicable to this element is shown here.

 

EXAMPLE:


HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head></head>
<body>
Created using HTML:<br>
Text broken using a carriage return between here <br> and here

<br><br>Created using JavaScript:<br>
<span id="element"></span>

<script>
var y = document.getElementById("element");
var txt1 = document.createTextNode("Text broken using a carriage return between here ");
y.appendChild(txt1);
var x = document.createElement("BR");
y.appendChild(x);
var txt2 = document.createTextNode(" and here");
y.appendChild(txt2);
</script>

</body>
</html>


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