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Is it out of date to use
tag nowadays? If so, what should I use instead?
For new line, I coding like this. This is not supposed to do these days?
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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Instead of using the <br> tag, you should use a semantic HTML element and the CSS margin or padding properties if necessary.
HTML 5 only requires <br> however <br/> is still fine. If you were using something like XHTML you would want that to be <br /> anyway..
The br tag inserts a line break (not a paragraph break). This tag has no content, so it is self closing.
The <br> HTML element produces a line break in text (carriage-return). It is useful for writing a poem or an address, where the division of lines is significant.
<br /> is meant to be used as to represent a break in said content, a common example would be an address:
<p>
20 street name<br />
City Name<br />
etc.
</p>
As you can see in the above example, the address is all one group of content, the breaks are only for presentational purposes.
In short: <p> tags should be used to seperate content into blocks, and the <br /> tag should be used for any breaks needed in that content (for presentational purposes, as in the example above)
The <br /> tag is perfectly valid, it's in the current HTML5 spec too.
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