What is the <br /> tag?

[Rightz]

I have seen this is a couple of websites recently and it means nothing to me. I searched google and found nothing on it.

What on earth does the <br /> tag do or mean?

[Acekicker]

It breaks the line. If you put <br />
then your text will go to the next line down.

[larryhatch]

That's what the <br> tag does, without the slash, it forces a line break.

Is there any difference between <br> and <br/> though? -Larry

[abbeyvet]

<br> is not valid xhtml.

<br /> is.

It only matters if you are using xhtml

[edited by: abbeyvet at 11:02 am (utc) on June 4, 2006]

[Acekicker]

"That's what the <br> tag does, without the slash, it forces a line break.

Is there any difference between <br> and <br/> though? -Larry"

No, none.

[larryhatch]

I use <br> a lot. I'll just leave out the slash, a useless extra byte of bandwidth then.

[Rightz]

Ah that clear it up then. Im not using xhtml so <br> is the only thing I use.

[dddddd]

Yes <br> and <br/> are the same when using plain HTML. For simplicity I just use <br>.

Lidija Turkovic

[piatkow]

Personally I try to future proof all my code so as I edit or create new pages I try and close all tags and make sure all tags are lower case.

[SonjaD]

You can also look at it from the other side.

<br> is correct html 4.01
<br/> is not

So futureproofing isn't doing a lot of good.

If and when you go to XHTML just search and replace all <br> to <br/>