<br /> Tags are being ignored by IE7

[Carey]

I have an html program in which i have used a br tag which is being ignored. If i attempt to put more than one br tag Internet explorer ignores all of the br tags except the first one. For instance consider the following programs.

Wish you Merry Christmas and<br /><br />
a prosperous New year

gives me the following output

Wish you Merry Christmas and
a prosperous New year

instead of

Wish you Merry Christmas and

a prosperous New year
please suggest some solutions regarding this matter.

[Humberto]

I am very much surprised to see that this has not been a problem while i test it on the websites that we build . Because we are using double br in many places. Please make it sure that this also won't work with the Internet Explorer 7 and then reply again.

[opaper]

I would like to tell you one thing that if you are using this in html it is good if you use the HTML then use <br> tag which does not have any end tag but the tag which you are showing in your program is a type of br tag itself but is widely used in the XHTML and nowhere in the HTML and it also has the starting and the ending tag

[kelfro]

Coming to the HTML . Please make a not of it that the HTML supports the <br> tag which do no have any end tag like <br /> hence do not use this tag. If you are programming using the html language then you must use only <br> if you want to make a gap of two line then you can use it twice. And i am definitely sure that it would work with all the Internet Explorer version.

[Modifier]

The br tag is used only in the html if you are trying to use the <br /> tag then you must give a try to <br/> without any space in between the br and the "/". If nothing is working for you then give it a try. Also specify that whether you are using html or xhtml in your later replies.

[MindSpace]

As far as html is concerned it provides only the br tag . The <br /> tag is used only with the XHTML. So if you want the desired output than you will have to use the br tag instead of the <br /> your code would look like the one below

Wish you Merry Christmas and<br><br>
a prosperous New year

I hope that you have got the desired output