<BR> | NN all IE all HTML all
<BR> | HTML End Tag: Forbidden
The br element forces a visible line break (carriage return and line feed) wherever its tag appears in the document. Browsers tend to honor the br element as a genuine line break, whereas paragraphs defined by the p element are given more vertical space between elements on the page. If the text containing the br element is wrapped around a floating image or other object, you can direct the next line (via the clear attribute or style sheet equivalent) to start below the object, rather than on the next line of the wrapped text.
Example
    <P>I think that I shall never see<BR>A poem lovely as a tree.</P>
Object Model Reference
    [window.]document.getElementById(elementID)
Element-Specific Attributes
clear
Element-Specific Event Handler Attributes
None.

clear | NN all IE all HTML 3.2
clear="constant" | Optional
The clear attribute tells the browser how to treat the next line of text following a br element if the current text is wrapping around a floating image or other object. The value you use depends on the side of the page to which one or more inline images are pegged and how you want the next line of text to be placed in relation to those images. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4 in favor of the clear style sheet attribute in CSS2.
Example
    <BR clear="left">
Value
Four string constants: all | left | none | right. HTML 4.0 includes what should be the default value: none. This value is listed in IE 3 documentation, but not for IE 4. You can set the property to none, and the browser either responds to the value or ignores it (yielding the same results).
Default
none
Object Model Reference
    [window.]document.getElementById(elementID).clear