Why doesn't javascript newlines work inside html?

Question

So I have the following:

  
    
  
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Answer 1

When you write to the page, you're not writing JavaScript; you're writing HTML. \n is a special "line feed" character that doesn't create a line break in the browser's rendering of the HTML. It WILL create a line break in the HTML file itself, but the browser doesn't take this into consideration when it renders out the markup.

Thus, the br tag is required.