Open In App

How to change the height of br tag?

Improve
Improve
Improve
Like Article
Like
Save Article
Save
Share
Report issue
Report

You can’t change the height of <br> tag as its not an HTML element, it is just an instruction which enforces a line break.
br does not take up any space in the page.

There is a way by which you can increase line break between lines, is by putting multiple br tags.

Another way is to use classed span tag and apply the style to them, to get desired output

Method-1: Use various span classes with a different style applied to them, you can change the value of “margin-bottom” for these classes to change the height of line break.

    Below is the implementation of this approach:

  • Example-1:




    <!DOCTYPE html >
    <html>
      
    <head>
        <title>
          Customized break example
      </title>
      
        <style type="text/css">
            .br {
                display: block;
                margin-bottom: 0em;
            }
              
            .brmedium {
                display: block;
                margin-bottom: 1em;
            }
              
            .brlarge {
                display: block;
                margin-bottom: 2em;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
      
    <body>
      
        <h3>This page shows different 
          break height between lines</h3>
        <p> Hi User
          <span class="brlarge"></span>
          Welcome to
          <span class="brmedium"></span
          Geeks for geeks.
          <span class="br"></span
          Hope you have enjoyed your stay.
        </p>
        
    </body>
      
    </html>

    
    

    Output:

  • Example-2: You can also decrease break height less than normal height by using negative bottom-margin for the span classes.




    <!DOCTYPE html >
    <html>
      
    <head>
        <title>
          Customized break example
      </title>
      
        <style type="text/css">
            .br {
                display: block;
                margin-bottom: 0em;
            }
              
            .brsmall {
                display: block;
                margin-bottom: -.2em;
            }
              
            .brxsmall {
                display: block;
                margin-bottom: -.4em;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
      
    <body>
      
        <h2>This page shows different 
          break height between</h2>
        
        <p>Hi User
          <span class="br"></span
          Welcome to
          <span class="brsmall"></span>
          Geeks for geeks.
          <span class="brxsmall"></span>
          Hope you have enjoyed your stay.
        </p>
        
    </body>
      
    </html>

    
    

    Output:

  • Method-2: Use inline css in <br> tag to change the height of br tag.

  • Example-3:




    <!DOCTYPE html >
    <html>
      
    <head>
        <title>
            Customized break example
        </title>
    </head>
      
    <body>
        <center>
            <h2>This page shows 
            different break 
            height between
        </h2>
      
            <p>GeeksforGeeks<br style=
            "line-height:40px"> A
              computer science portal.</p>
        </center>
    </body>
      
    </html>

    
    

    Output:



Last Updated : 30 Apr, 2019
Like Article
Save Article
Previous
Next
Share your thoughts in the comments
Similar Reads