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Scott Brown
653 PointsWhat to use <br> or \n ?
In these videos Hampton Paulk sometimes uses <br> - for line breaks and sometimes \n. Are they always interchangable? And what to use better?
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Shane Oliver
19,977 Points<br /> is an HTML line-break while \n is a unix source code new line. So, <br /> makes a new line in the markup and \n makes a new line in the code.