What is in HTML and how to use it

Often you want to display texts with frequent line breaks, such as addresses, poems, etc on websites. The HTML element   provides an easy way to break lines on web pages.

A code example

The below example uses   to create line breaks

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
	<title>A Sample Web Page</title>
</head>

<body>
	<p>
		Mr. Alan Jones
		<br>
		Evergreen Supplies
		<br>
		21, Township Road
		<br>
		Winnebago, North Carolina
	</p>
</body>

</html>

The above example uses the HTML element   in many places to break lines. Here the HTML element   helps display a piece of address information on a website.

Few extra information

The HTML element   is a void element. It can’t contain any content. Thus, you don’t need a closing tag for the   element.

You may get confused when you come across a self-closing   tag. Web developers use it sometimes to meet the backward compatibility with XHTML. You should always use the syntax,  .

It’s good programming practice to use the HTML tag   unless unavoidable. The overuse of the HTML tag creates a spaghetti code, hard to manage and style. The rule of thumb is to replace the   element with block elements or with CSS styling if possible.

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