# Line Breaks in RDoc?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/line-breaks-in-rdoc/95948>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 22, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/line-breaks-in-rdoc/95948 "2006-01-22T03:58:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/line-breaks-in-rdoc/95948/1 "2006-01-22T03:58:00Z")

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In RDoc format, how do I get it to insert an HTML line break (  
)?

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**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/line-breaks-in-rdoc/95948/2 "2006-01-22T14:29:59Z")

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John W. Long wrote:

> In RDoc format, how do I get it to insert an HTML line break (  
> )?

I cannot test it right now, but try \<br /\>

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**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/line-breaks-in-rdoc/95948/3 "2006-01-23T17:41:10Z")

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Eero S. wrote:

> > In RDoc format, how do I get it to insert an HTML line break (  
> > )?
> 
> I cannot test it right now, but try \<br /\>

Nope. Doesn’t work. Any other ideas?