WordPress and Adding Line Breaks – a Hack

January 9, 2008 · Posted in Nerdy Stuff · 24 Comments 

I came across the issue of adding a line break on one of my pages. This page contains an iframe, which may or may not be the root of the problem. My goal was to have a couple of lines of text, space, camera image, space, and a couple more lines of text. I finally got there, but it took a little Googling. I tried using the regular tags; <br> and <br />, but they didn’t work. The original code for the iframe had the image being aligned to the left. By deleting the align code I was able to get the second line of text to move to the bottom of the frame. I still wanted an extra space under the camera image. After Googling for line breaks I stumbled on A Truth Seeker’s blog and copied this little snippet of code:
<br clear="none" />
That did the trick. I’m calling this a hack since I didn’t really bother with too much research. I just tried stuff until I got my line break. I’m also a lazy html’er. I only learn code when I want to do something. Please feel free to add your comment, especially if you know what the correct solution should be.

(Edit 1/14/09: Deleted the link to the Harley Cam. Sadly, that page no longer exists.)
(Edit 7/9/2010: Deleted the link to the Truth Seeker’s blog. It apparently no longer exists.)

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