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<br /> Description:

The <br /> tag defines a forced line break within an XHTML document.

<br /> Web Browser Support:

• AvantGo Palm OS
• AvantGo Windows CE
• Firefox 1, 2
• Internet Explorer 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Mozilla 1
• Netscape 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8
• Opera 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• Safari 1, 2
• WebTV / MSNTV
• HTML 3.2, 4.0
• XHTML 1.0
  Text Module, Legacy Module

<br /> Attributes:

All attributes are optional unless indicated.

• class
• clear
• id
• style
• title

<br /> End Tag:

None. <br /> is a singleton tag.

<br /> Contents:

None.

<br /> Valid Context:

The <br /> tag is valid within the following tags:
a, abbr, acronym, address, applet, b, bdo, big, blockquote, body, button, caption, center, cite, code, dd, del, dfn, div, dt, em, fieldset, font, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, i, iframe, ins, kbd, label, legend, li, noframes, noscript, object, p, pres q, s, samp, small, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, td, th, tt, u, var

<br /> Usage:

• standard line break:

  This text is on the first line.
  <br />
  And this text is on the second line.

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• line breaks beside an aligned image

  <img src=about_logo.gif" style="width:137px; height:48px; border: none; float: left;" alt="About.com" />
  This text will be to the right of the image.<br />
  This will be too.<br clear="left" />
  And this text will be below the image.

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<br /> Special Notes:

• Match the "clear" attribute to the "float" attribute in the image or other aligned element.
• The most commonly used "clear" attribute is "all", as it guarantees that your content will be below all aligned elements.
• Sometimes authors may want to prevent a line break from occurring between two words. The   (non-breaking space) entity acts as a space where browsers should not cause a line break.

More <br /> Information:

• Using the P and BR Elements
• Line Breaks and Paragraphs
• Making Spaces
• Use the clear CSS property instead

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