How to line-break from css, without using ?

Question

output:

hello
How are you

code:

hello 
 How are you 

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Answer 1

Impossible with the same HTML structure, you must have something to distinguish between Hello and How are you.

I suggest using spans that you will then display as blocks (just like a <div> actually).

p span {
  display: block;
}

<p><span>hello</span><span>How are you</span></p>

Answer 2

There are several options for defining the handling of white spaces and line breaks. If one can put the content in e.g. a <p> tag it is pretty easy to get whatever one wants.

For preserving line breaks but not white spaces use pre-line (not pre) like in:

<style>
 p {
     white-space: pre-line; /* collapse WS, preserve LB */
   }
</style>

<p>hello
How are you</p>

If another behavior is wanted choose among one of these (WS=WhiteSpace, LB=LineBreak):

     white-space: normal;   /* collapse WS, wrap as necessary, collapse LB */
     white-space: nowrap;   /* collapse WS, no wrapping,       collapse LB */
     white-space: pre;      /* preserve WS, no wrapping,       preserve LB */
     white-space: pre-wrap; /* preserve WS, wrap as necessary, preserve LB */
     white-space: inherit;  /* all as parent element */

SOURCE: W3 Schools

Answer 3

In my case, I needed an input button to have a line break before it.
I applied the following style to the button and it worked:

clear:both;

Answer 4

How about<pre> tag?

source: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_pre.asp

Answer 5

You can add a lot of padding and force text to be split to new line, for example

p{
    padding-right: 50%;
}

Worked fine for me in a situation with responsive design, where only within a certain width range it was needed for text to be split.

Answer 6

To make an element have a line break afterwards, assign it:

display:block;

Non-floated elements after a block level element will appear on the next line. Many elements, such as <p> and <div> are already block level elements so you can just use those.

But while this is good to know, this really depends more on the context of your content. In your example, you would not want to use CSS to force a line break. The <br /> is appropriate because semantically the p tag is the the most appropriate for the text you are displaying. More markup just to hang CSS off it is unnecessary. Technically it's not exactly a paragraph, but there is no <greeting> tag, so use what you have. Describing your content well with HTMl is way more important - after you have that then figure out how to make it look pretty.