Most browsers will likely ignore various formatting keystrokes, including Enter, Tab keys, and uses of spacebar. Yet, these formatting tags enable users to accomplish various tasks in HTML.

Your web browser can wrap text to the next line automatically with the current one reaching the right side. If you want to avoid this unattractive text wrapping and start coding to the next line, it is vital to add a line break.

This tutorial will focus on discussing the best method to add a new line break in HTML with detailed explanations.

How To Add A New Line Break 

While you can choose another method to accomplish this task, using the <br> tag is still the quickest and most effective strategy. This <br> element in HTML is often employed to produce a line break in text.

It works best for writing an address or a poem, where you witness the significance of line division. The <br> tag doesn’t come with an end tag. 

For this reason, additional lines can be added between two paragraphs to modify the structure. Each entered <br> tag will create a blank line. There is no visual output or dimension in this tag, so you cannot do much to style it.

If you want to increase the line spacing in the block, setting a margin or using the line-height property will be an ideal choice.

Example:

<p> O’er all the hilltops<br>

    Is quiet now,<br>

    In all the treetops<br>

    Hearest thou<br>

    Hardly a breath;<br>

    The birds are asleep in the trees:<br>

    Wait, soon like these<br>

    Thou too shalt rest.

</p>

Output:

O’er all the hilltops

Is quiet now,

In all the treetops

Hearest thou

Hardly a breath;

The birds are asleep in the trees:

Wait, soon like these

Thou too shalt rest.

In the example above, the <br> element is added to any point you want to break the text. After each <br>, the text will begin again at the start of the text block’s next line.

You can also employ another method to add a line break to a textarea. The addition or + operator and ‘\r\n’ string will take effect. Add these two functions to the place where you want a line break. 

For example, a break should be added to line one and two, then the code will be ‘line one’ + ‘\r\n’ + ‘line two’. The combination of \n and \r characters can work as a newline character.

Specifically, the \r character doesn’t move the cursor to the next line. Instead, this character moves it to the line’s beginning. On the reverse, the \n character doesn’t return the cursor to the line’s beginning. It moves it down to the following line.

For this reason, the combination of these two characters will move the cursor to the line’s beginning and advance it down to the next line.

Conclusion

This tutorial gives detailed instructions to add a new line break. This practice will allow you to write your favorite poem easily and quickly.