How to insert a line break in markdown

Question

I\'m trying to create a markdown file with some paragraphs containing both a link and a line of text on the next line. The problem I\'ve encountered is that when I make a new li

Answer 1

I know this post is about adding a single line break but I thought I would mention that you can create multiple line breaks with the backslash (\) character:

Hello
\
\
\
World!

This would result in 3 new lines after "Hello". To clarify, that would mean 2 empty lines between "Hello" and "World!". It would display like this:

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Hello

World!

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Personally I find this cleaner for a large number of line breaks compared to using
.

Note that backslashes are not recommended for compatibility reasons. So this may not be supported by your Markdown parser but it's handy when it is.