Vance's e-Zguide "10 steps to creating simple HTML files" Step 4 Formatting line breaks
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Try it: Compare step 3 with this page.

Concept: Some formatting commands - to force text down to the next line, use a line <BR>eak

Explanation:

• If you want to skip just one line, use <br> for line break.
• Unlike other tags, this one doesn't need to be closed.
• The <BR> tag fits somewhere within a set of <P>aragraph and </P> tags.

What's coming: Other useful formatting commands, bold and italics

• 1. The basic structure tags
• 2. Putting your document title in the blue bar of the browser
• 3. Formatting text: getting the browser to display text in paragraph form
• 4. Formatting text: breaking the text into lines with line breaks <-- You are here!
• 5. Formatting text: bold and italics
• 6. Inserting images
• 7. Linking to other html files in a web project
• 8. Linking to other URLs on the Internet
• 9. More text formatting: changing font size
• 10. More formatting: centering text and images, and drawing lines across the page