What is the fucntion of the <br/> tag in this table code ??? 🤔🤔🤔😕

Question

<table border="2">
<tr>
<td>Red</td>
<td>Blue</td>
<td>Green</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><br /></td>
<td colspan="2"><br /></td>
</tr>
</table>

Answer 1

The <br> in this example stops the table cells from collapsing.

Remove the br tags to see what I mean. Between the opening and closing td tags, there is usually content for the cell.

Sometimes as I'm designing tables without content yet, I'll throw " &nbsp; " into the td cell.

This is html code for a space and stops the table cells collapsing .