Tutorials - HTML - Line Breaks

In the previous tutorial, we introduced the <br /> tag. This is the first time we have demonstrated tags which do not have a closing tag. For some tags, like line breaks, it doesn't make sense to have a closing tag, as there is no way they can wrap around content. However, in order to have a well-formed document each tag must close. the /> at the end of the tag indicates that this is a singular tag which has closed. See the example below for how the <br /> works.

<p>
This text
will display
all on one line
because line returns in the content
don't automatically provide a line break in the display
</p>
<p>
This text <br />
will display <br />
across many lines <br />
as we have added line break tags.
</p>

This text will display all on one line because line returns in the content don't automatically provide a line break in the display

This text
will display
across many lines
as we have added line break tags.

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