This element indicates a point in the flow of text where a new line should begin, regardless of how close this point is to the next natural break point at the edge of a column or page. It is used to create lines of poetry and computer code.

<computertext>10 PRINT "Hello"<br/>20 GOTO 10</computertext>

10 PRINT "Hello"
20 GOTO 10

The elements listed below may directly contain this element. They are "parent" elements. Elements in referenced groups are included, up to two levels of group nesting.

Parent elements: <issuetitle> <address-text>

- (via "Formatting Objects in Text" group: <corporate> <addinfo> <caption> <endnotes> <endnote>

- - (via "Document Title Content" group: <supertitle> <title> <subtitle> <shorttitle> <abbrevtitle> <doititle> <shortsectionhead> )

- - (via "Title Content" group: <journaltitle> <journalsubtitle> <chaptitle> <pubname> <presentationtitle> <collectworktitle> <docpubtitle> <patenttitle> <articletitle> <listtitle> )

- - (via "Paragraph Content" group: <authornote> <para> <poemline> <computertext> <source> <entry> )

- - (via "Emphasis Content" group: <b> <i> <smallcaps> <u> <box> <roman> <script> <tt> <overline> <strikethrough> ) )

The DTD model for this element:

 (no content allowed) 

The DTD contains the following element and attribute definitions (note that embedded links are to definitions within the DTD page of this guide):

<!ELEMENT br                             EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST br
               %a-group-CommonIDAttrs;>

Defined in DTD section Inline-level Content : Formatting and Identifying : Format-Oriented

Common Optional ID Attributes (a-group-CommonIDAttrs)