Line break (like <br>) using only css

html css styling

Steeven · Jun 7, 2012 · Viewed 133.1k times · Source

Is it possible in pure css, that is without adding additional html tags, to make a line break like <br>? I want the line break after the <h4> element, but not before:

HTML

<li>
  Text, text, text, text, text. <h4>Sub header</h4>
  Text, text, text, text, text.
</li>

CSS

h4 {
  display: inline;
}

I have found many questions like this, but always with answers like "use display: block;", which I can't do, when the <h4> must stay on the same line.

Answer

It works like this:

h4 {
    display:inline;
}
h4:after {
    content:"\a";
    white-space: pre;
}

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/Bb2d7/

The trick comes from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/66000/509752 (to have more explanation)

Line break (like <br>) using only css

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