title: Why is <br> an element, not an entity?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3488198/why-is-br-an-html-element-rather-than-an-html-entity">Why is &lt;br&gt; an HTML element rather than an HTML entity?</a>  </p>
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  <p>Why is a line break in HTML an element <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> instead of an entity, such as <code>&amp;br;</code>? In many ways it seems a bad fit to be an element (e.g. has a different node type attribute to normal HTML elements, is similar to <code>&amp;nbsp;</code> in what it does).</p>