HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
5.1. Horizontal Rules
Horizontal rules give you a way to separate sections of your document
visually. That way, you give readers a clean, consistent, visual indication
that one portion of your document has ended and another portion has
begun. Horizontal rules effectively set off small sections of text, delimit
document headers and footers, and provide extra visual punch to head-
ings within your document.
5.1.1. The <hr> Tag
The
<hr>
tag tells the browser to insert a horizontal rule across the dis-
play window. With HTML, it has no end tag. For XHTML, include the end-
tag slash (
/
) symbol as the last character in the tag itself after any attrib-
utes (
<hr .../>
), or include an end tag immediately following (
<hr></hr>
).
Like the
<br>
tag,
<hr>
forces a simple line break. Unlike
<br>
,
<hr>
causes
the paragraph alignment to revert to the default (left justified). The
browser places the rule immediately below the current line, and content
flow resumes below the rule. [
<br>, 4.6.1
]
