Why doesn't javascript newlines work inside html?

Question

So I have the following:

  
    
  
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Answer 1

The document object represents an HTML document; any text written to the document will be processed by the browser's HTML renderer. In HTML, all adjacent whitespace, including line breaks (e.g., "\n"), are collapsed into a single space when rendered. This is why you need
, which is rendered as a line break. You can make \n work by replacing it with
or by writing into a

 element:


Hello
World