Deprecated in HTML5. Do not use.

<br clear=""">

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What does <br clear="""> do?
Was used to ensure that line breaks "cleared" floated or aligned elements above them. Deprecated.

Use CSS

The clear attribute was used to ensure that a line break appearing in text wrapped around an image (using the deprecated align attribute would clear the image, causing the next bit of content after the <br> to appear below the image. This and most other presentational attributes have been deprecated in HTML5. Use CSS instead.

br.clear {  clear: both; } 
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