And this is how we can add line breaks to properly format our address:
The White House
It looks like this in the browser:
How to Add Line Breaks to Poems Poems are conventionally written in short breaking sentences in order to create visual hierarchies and format them nicely.
So, if you want to write a poem in your HTML code, the
A poem without line breaks I dabbled around a lot when I decided to learn to code I went from A to Z with resources When I decided to make my own things I discovered I've been in the old all while So I remained a novice in coding But then I found freeCodeCamp I got my hands on the platform I went from novice to ninja in coding And now I'm a camper for life
It looks like this in the browser:
You can see the poem has no visual hierarchy, it is not formatted the right way, and so it is unreadable as a poem.
A poem with line breaks I dabbled around a lot when I decided to learn to code
I also changed the font size a bit in the CSS:
It now looks like this in the browser:
You can see that the poem is now more readable and formatted the right way.
Some valuable advice: Do not use the
You might be wondering – since the
Well, it is possible. But there’s no real practical need to style it since all it does is create a couple of white spaces.
Conclusion I hope this tutorial has given you the background knowledge you need to use the
Thank you for reading, and keep coding.
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: The Line Break element The HTML element produces a line break in text (carriage-return). It is useful for writing a poem or an address, where the division of lines is significant.
Try it As you can see from the above example, a
Note: Do not use
Attributes This element’s attributes include the global attributes.
Deprecated attributes Indicates where to begin the next line after the break.
Styling with CSS The
You can set a margin on
Examples Simple br In the following example we use
br /> br /> br /> br /> br /> Result Accessibility concerns Creating separate paragraphs of text using
Use
elements, and use CSS properties like margin to control their spacing.
Technical summary Content categories Flow content, phrasing content. Permitted content None; it is a void element. Tag omission Must have a start tag, and must not have an end tag. In XHTML documents, write this element as Permitted parents Any element that accepts phrasing content. Implicit ARIA role No corresponding role Permitted ARIA roles none , presentation DOM interface HTMLBRElement
Specifications Browser compatibility BCD tables only load in the browser
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Wrapping and breaking text This guide explains the various ways in which overflowing text can be managed in CSS.
What is overflowing text? In CSS, if you have an unbreakable string such as a very long word, by default it will overflow any container that is too small for it in the inline direction. We can see this happening in the example below: the long word is extending past the boundary of the box it is contained in.
CSS will display overflow in this way, because doing something else could cause data loss. In CSS data loss means that some of your content vanishes. So the initial value of overflow is visible , and we can see the overflowing text. It is generally better to be able to see overflow, even if it is messy. If things were to disappear or be cropped as would happen if overflow was set to hidden you might not spot it when previewing your site. Messy overflow is at least easy to spot, and in the worst case, your visitor will be able to see and read the content even if it looks a bit strange.
In this next example, you can see what happens if overflow is set to hidden .
Finding the min-content size To find the minimum size of the box that will contain its contents with no overflows, set the width or inline-size property of the box to min-content .
Using min-content is therefore one possibility for overflowing boxes. If it is possible to allow the box to grow to be the minimum size required for the content, but no bigger, using this keyword will give you that size.
Breaking long words If the box needs to be a fixed size, or you are keen to ensure that long words can’t overflow, then the overflow-wrap property can help. This property will break a word once it is too long to fit on a line by itself.
Note: The overflow-wrap property acts in the same way as the non-standard property word-wrap . The word-wrap property is now treated by browsers as an alias of the standard property.
An alternative property to try is word-break . This property will break the word at the point it overflows. It will cause a break-even if placing the word onto a new line would allow it to display without breaking.
In this next example, you can compare the difference between the two properties on the same string of text.
This might be useful if you want to prevent a large gap from appearing if there is just enough space for the string. Or, where there is another element that you would not want the break to happen immediately after.
In the example below there is a checkbox and label. Let’s say, you want the label to break should it be too long for the box. However, you don’t want it to break directly after the checkbox.
Adding hyphens To add hyphens when words are broken, use the CSS hyphens property. Using a value of auto , the browser is free to automatically break words at appropriate hyphenation points, following whatever rules it chooses. To have some control over the process, use a value of manual , then insert a hard or soft break character into the string. A hard break ( ‐ ) will always break, even if it is not necessary to do so. A soft break ( ) only breaks if breaking is needed.
You can also use the hyphenate-character property to use the string of your choice instead of the hyphen character at the end of the line (before the hyphenation line break).
This property also takes the value auto , which will select the correct value to mark a mid-word line break according to the typographic conventions of the current content language.
The element In the below example the text breaks in the location of the .
See also The HTML element The CSS word-break property The CSS overflow-wrap property The CSS white-space property The CSS hyphens property Overflow and Data Loss in CSS Found a content problem with this page? This page was last modified on May 25, 2023 by MDN contributors.
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