How to get newline in HTML? Without BR

[Yash]

In a TD, I would like to print 5 words one below the other. I know I
can use <BR/>. Is there any other way?
I tried
and
This seems to print "\r" and "\n" but not give
the effect of a new line.

I am actually doing this so that I can use the HTML content to export
to an Excel file. A BR introduces new Excel rows which is unwanted for
my requirement.

Thanks,
Yash

 

[Martin Honnen]

In a TD, I would like to print 5 words one below the other. I know I
can use <BR/>. Is there any other way?

Well with HTML you can try the pre element
<td><pre>foo
bar
baz
whatever
whatelse</pre></td>
but I have no idea whether that helps with your Excel problem described
below. And this is comp.lang.javascript, use
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html for HTML authoring problems.

 

[Matt Kruse]

In a TD, I would like to print 5 words one below the other. I know I
can use <BR/>. Is there any other way?
I tried
and
This seems to print "\r" and "\n" but not give
the effect of a new line.
I am actually doing this so that I can use the HTML content to export
to an Excel file. A BR introduces new Excel rows which is unwanted for
my requirement.

The real fix is a simple CSS rule in your document:

<style>
br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}
</style>

Now when Excel reads your HTML and finds a <br> tag, it will put a
newline in the same cell rather than spanning rows.

Matt Kruse

 

[Steve Swift]

I am actually doing this so that I can use the HTML content to export
to an Excel file. A BR introduces new Excel rows which is unwanted for
my requirement.

How are you getting from the HTML to the Excel format? I can think of at
least two ways. Whichever way you are doing it, it is wrong for the <BR>
to be interpreted as a new Excel row. It should be interpreted as a
newline inside the Excel cell.