HTML Web Design Tutorial #6

Using Line Breaks to Start a New Line of Text

An interesting thing happens to the text you put in your document when it's displayed on a web page. It all runs in a continuous stream regardless of how many times you hit the "Enter" key in order to start the text on a new line.

When a web browser reads an html document, it deliberately ignores the extra white space placed in the document. Any carriage returns, tabs, or consecutive spaces will be displayed in the web browser as only one single space. In order to add certain effects to your text, you'll need to use special formatting tags.

In part 6 we will see how to use a special formatting tag called the line break: <br>. Adding one into your html code creates the same effect as hitting the "Enter" key once. Click the play button below to begin the line break lesson.

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