Question

Read these sentences.<br />Which one describes you best? Say why.<br />I am happy and content with what I have and what I am.<br />I am not happy and content with what I have and what I am.​

Answer 1

Indicates where to begin the next line after the break.

Styling with CSS

The <br> element has a single, well-defined purpose — to create a line break in a block of text. As such, it has no dimensions or visual output of its own, and there is very little you can do to style it.

You can set a margin on <br> elements themselves to increase the spacing between the lines of text in the block, but this is a bad practice — you should use the line-height property that was designed for that purpose.

Examples

Simple br

In the following example we use <br> elements to create line breaks between the different lines of a postal address: