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  <?xml version="1.0" ?>
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
  
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    <title>Creating Line Breaks Using the &lt;br /&gt; Element</title>
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  <p>When you want to start a new line you can use the &lt;br /&gt; element. So, the next<br />
  word will appear on a new line.</p>
  <p>Without the line break element, new lines are started only when the sentence reaches the end of the screen; this sentence should be long enough to wrap on your screen. Now try resizing your browser window and see how the position where the line wraps onto a new line changes.</p>
  <p>Some Web designers also use this element to control the layout of the document and add extra white space. You can use multiple &lt;br /&gt; elements to create gaps of several lines, like I am about to do <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />here because this text is still in the same paragraph element. Rather than using the &lt;br /&gt; element to add white space into your documents, it is better to use CSS.</p>
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  </html>


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