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When a paragraph or line of text is too long to fit on one line, web browsers, like many other programs, automatically wrap the text to the next line. Web browsers usually wrap the line where there are natural breaks such as spaces, hyphens, etc. in the text.
Single line breaks in the source text are not translated to single line breaks in the output (if you want a single line break to appear in the rendered article, use a <br /> tag or {} template). However, single line breaks in the source do have certain effects: Within a list, a single line break starts either the next item or a new paragraph ...
HTML equivalent: <br> or <br /> can be used to break line layout. Templates for line breaks: {} can add multiple line breaks. {} and {} adds a break with styling, to clear floating elements. Often used to prevent text from flowing next to unrelated tables or images. Unbulleted list:
A second common application of non-breaking spaces is in plain text file formats such as SGML, HTML, TeX and LaTeX, whose rendering engines are programmed to treat sequences of whitespace characters (space, newline, tab, form feed, etc.) as if they were a single character (but this behavior can be overridden).
See: Help talk:Table#Line breaks. David Göthberg noted in 2008: "Also up until recently all documentation listed <br> as the code for forced line breaks. But some months ago some XHTML enthusiasts went around and edited a lot of the help pages to show the <br /> or even the <br/>."
A newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), next line (NEL) or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc. This character, or a sequence of characters, is used to signify the end of a line of text and the start of a new one. [1]
A non-paragraph line break, which is a soft return, is inserted using ⇧ Shift+↵ Enter or via the menus, and is provided for cases when the text should start on a new line but none of the other side effects of starting a new paragraph are desired. In text-oriented markup languages, a soft return is typically offered as a markup tag.
The text between < html > and </ html > describes the web page, and the text between < body > and </ body > is the visible page content. The markup text < title > This is a title </ title > defines the browser page title shown on browser tabs and window titles and the tag < div > defines a division of the page used for easy styling.