You may look at this question and think “of course I use the BR element! What else would I use?” But there are some who feel that the BR element is unneccessary and should be removed from the specification. Instead, they say, you should use the P element and change the margins with the CSS margin-top and margin-bottom properties. I understand the premise, after all, the BR element was most useful before CSS was well supported and you needed to add a line-break, but it’s not as necessary now. Plus, by using the P element instead, your pages will be more accessible by screen readers, more semantically correct, and have better typographic control over the line heights of your paragraphs. So, even if you chose “yes” in the poll, knowing what you know now, would you still use the BR element? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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Poll: Do you use the BR element? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, November 17th, 2011 at 04:33:07.

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