How do I replace a regular expression with a newline in emacs

Question

I would like to put a newline after every tag in an HTML file in Emacs. Now I have got

M-x query-replace-regexp $<[^>]*>$ --> \1\n

This returns

invalid use of "\"

I've already tried C-x C-j, but that returns <html>C-x C-j<head>C-x C-j etc...

If anybody knows the solution, that would be helpful :)

chrm · Accepted Answer

You can use C-q to insert control characters.

C-q C-j to insert a newline, C-q C-i to insert a tabulator etc.

So instead of just type C-q C-j.

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