Spring Into HTML and CSS

Working with Page Breaks

Page breaks force a break in a line found within a paragraph. They are especially useful when forced line breaks are important to the flow of the text, such as in a poem (see Example 2-3).

Example 2-3. Working with page breaks

<p>What earthly tongue, and, oh! what human pen<br />Can tell that scene of suffering, too severe.<br />'Tis ever present to my sight, oh! When<br />Will the sound cease its torture on mine ear?</p>

You'll note that I've first placed these lines of markup in a paragraph because you'll want them to have some kind of structure. The paragraph is a logical choice because a poem is really a series of paragraphs, broken by line. Figure 2-3 shows the way the browser displays breaks.

Figure 2-3. ...