How to insert a line break
in markdown

markdown

I'm trying to create a Markdown file with some paragraphs containing both a link and a line of text on the next line. The problem I've encountered is that when I make a new line after the link, it is rendered with a separate <p> tag.

My Markdown is the following:

[Name of link](url)

My line of text

Which is rendered to the following HTML:

<p>
   <a href="url">Name of link</a>
</p>
<p>My line of text</p>

Instead I want it to render like so:

<p>
    <a href="url">Name of link</a><br>  // not necessarily with a <br> tag but on a separate line
    My line of text
</p>

I've also tried using a single line break in the Markdown:

[Name of link](url)
My line of text

But then both the link and the text is rendered on the same line, but without a line break.

Any suggestions on how to solve this?

Best Answer

Try adding 2 spaces (or a backslash \) after the first line:

[Name of link](url)
My line of text\

Visually:

[Name of link](url)<space><space>
My line of text\

Output:

<p><a href="url">Name of link</a><br>
My line of text<br></p>
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