How to insert a line break br in markdown

Question

I m trying to create a markdown file with some paragraphs containing both a link and a line of text on the next line  The problem I ve encountered is that when I make a new line after the link  it is rendered with a separate  lt p gt  tag   My markdown is the following    Name of link  url   My line of text   Which is rendered to the following html    lt p gt      lt a href  url  gt Name of link lt  a gt   lt  p gt   lt p gt My line of text lt  p gt    Instead I want it to render like so    lt p gt       lt a href  url  gt Name of link lt  a gt  lt br gt      not necessarily with a  lt br gt  tag but on a separate line     My line of text  lt  p gt    I ve also tried using a single line break in the markdown    Name of link  url  My line of text   But then both the link and the text is rendered on the same line  but without a line break   Any suggestions on how to solve this  Thanks in advance

User · Answer

I know this post is about adding a single line break but I thought I would mention that you can create multiple line breaks with the backslash (\) character:

Hello
\
\
\
World!

This would result in 3 new lines after "Hello". To clarify, that would mean 2 empty lines between "Hello" and "World!". It would display like this:

Hello

World!

Personally I find this cleaner for a large number of line breaks compared to using <br>.

Note that backslashes are not recommended for compatibility reasons. So this may not be supported by your Markdown parser but it's handy when it is.

User · Answer

Try adding 2 spaces  or a backslash    after the first line    Name of link  url  My line of text    Visually    Name of link  url  lt space gt  lt space gt  My line of text    Output    lt p gt  lt a href  url  gt Name of link lt  a gt  lt br gt  My line of text lt br gt  lt  p gt

User · Answer

Just adding a new line worked for me if you re to store the markdown in a JavaScript variable  like so let markdown         1  Apple     2  Mango      this is juicy     3  Orange

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