what does "<br/ >" actually do? the lesson never explains why it uses this.

Answer 1

<br /> is meant to be used as to represent a break in said content, a common example would be an address:

<p>
20 street name<br />
City Name<br />
etc.
</p>

As you can see in the above example, the address is all one group of content, the breaks are only for presentational purposes.

In short: <p> tags should be used to seperate content into blocks, and the <br />tag should be used for any breaks needed in that content (for presentational purposes, as in the example above)

Note: Use the <br/> tag to enter line breaks, not to separate paragraphs

Tip: The <br/> tag is useful for writing addresses or poems

Answer 2

<br /> creates a line-break
<p>My name is<br /> XYZ<p>
output :-
My name is
XYZ

Answer 3

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Answer 4

A concept/rule you need to first accept:

** HTML ignores ALL whitespace **

word1{tab}{tab}{tab}word2{enter}
word3{space}{1000 spaces}word4

produces:
word1 word2 word3 word4

Because HTML is a "markup" language; you're not supposed to FORCE formatting...instead you should use tags like <pre>, <code> and positioned <div>...but if you insist:

...you use <br /> to force "hard" line breaks (&nbsp; for "non-breaking" spaces, fyi). They break (as in override) engine decisions; try not to rely on forced behavior in production.

Answer 5

you tagged #javascript #loop
why?

Answer 6

Create a line break

Answer 7

<br> is a standalone tag
So you can code <br> and/or </br>