Paragraph Break

On a Confluence page, a continuous line of text with two carriage returns at its end forms a paragraph. This is equivalent to a continuous line of text followed by a blank line.

When rendered into HTML, the result is a line of text wrapped in a set of <p></p> tags.

Line Break

Confluence provides two options for forcing a line break within a paragraph of text:

• Implicitly, by entering a single carriage return at its end.
• Explicitly, by entering two consecutive backslashes:

  (\\)

  .

When rendered into HTML, the result is a paragraph of text split into separate lines by <br> tags, wherever a forced line break appears.

For most purposes, explicit line breaks are not required because a single carriage return is enough.

The examples below show how to use explicit line breaks.

 \\

divided \\

using line \\ \\

breaks

 \\ \\

If you wish to use multiple consecutive line breaks, each should be separated by a space character. For example, use

\\ \\

Horizontal Rule

Use four dashes (----) to create a horizontal rule.

Make sure that the dashes are on a separate line from the rest of the text.

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