[markdown] How to add new line in Markdown presentation?

How to add new line in Markdown presentation?

I mean, something like \newline in TeX.

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See the original markdown specification (bold mine):

The implication of the “one or more consecutive lines of text” rule is that Markdown supports “hard-wrapped” text paragraphs. This differs significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable Type’s “Convert Line Breaks” option) which translate every line break character in a paragraph into a <br /> tag.

When you do want to insert a <br /> break tag using Markdown, you end a line with two or more spaces, then type return.


MarkDown file in three way to Break a Line

<br /> Tag Using

paragraph First Line <br /> Second Line

\ Using

First Line sentence \
Second Line sentence 

space keypress two times Using

First Line sentence??
Second Line sentence

Paragraphs in use <br /> tag.

Multiple sentences in using \ or two times press space key then Enter and write a new sentence.


You could use &nbsp; in R markdown to create a new blank line.

For example, in your .Rmd file:

I want 3 new lines: 

&nbsp;
&nbsp;
&nbsp;

End of file. 

Just add \ at the end of line. For example

one\
two

Will become

one
two

It's also better than two spaces because it's visible.


I wanted to create a MarkdownPreviewer in react as part of a project in freecodecamp. So I was desperately searching for newline characters for markdown. After trying many suggestions. I finally used \n and it worked.


How to add new line in Markdown presentation?

Check the following resource Line Return

To force a line return, place two empty spaces at the end of a line.


If none of the solutions mentions here work for you, which is what happened with me, then you can do the following: Add an empty header (A hack that ruins semantics)

text
####
text

Just make sure that when the header is added it has no border in bottom of it in the markdown css, so you can try different variations of the headers.


The newline character (\n) can be used to add a newline into a markdown file programmatically. For example, it is possible to do like this in python:

with open("file_name.md", "w") as file:
   file.write("Some text")
   file.write("\n")
   file.write("Some other text")

It depends on what kind of markdown parser you're using. For example in showdownjs there is an option {simpleLineBreaks: true} which gives corresponding html for the following md input:

a line
wrapped in two
<p>a line<br>
wrapped in two</p>

I was using Markwon for markdown parsing in Android. The following worked great:

"My first line  \nMy second line  \nMy third line  \nMy last line"

...two spaces followed by \n at the end of each line.