Im Having HTML Markup Problems?

[DazzleIT]

I have a page that uses the <li> tag and was wondering how to insert a line break that wont affect the box layout its contained within. At the moment im using the <br> but when im trying to validate the code it errors out.

Please can anyone tell me what im doing wrong please.
I get this error message:

Line 47, Column 22: document type does not allow element "br" here; assuming missing "li" start-tag
<br />
Ok do i need end tags for this?
<br /> thats what errors

 

[Crazy Programmer]

for the answer on Additional details. no the < /br > tag is t a function tag, it needs no end because it ends right where it finishes the command

 

[joe.attaboy]

do this:

< br / > (take out the spaces around the brackets. Leave one in front of the slash).

The version of the break you used won't validate in XHTML validators.