Double line break HTML tag

Question

I am creating a website and I find myself doing </br></br> a lot in order to create a new paragraph looking like this...

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

I have already created a <tab> tag to indent paragraphs but I am wondering if I could create a <break> tag and in puts in two new lines to save me some time.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

-Henry

Answer 1

If <p> are not needed semanticly(?), you may change <br/> defaut values:

br {
  margin:2.5em 0;/* FF for instance */
  line-height:5em;/* chrome for instance */
}

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/cJwDhI <=here it's 5em, to make it obvious :)

Answer 2

Use a <pre> tag. It saves the formatting within.

<pre>
My first line.

My second line after two line breaks.
</pre>