shouldnt " " work here just fine?

It will work just as fine, as long as you'll parse that string as html before displaying. That's done in browser, and most email clients, however, since the content is surrounded by the ' ' tag, newline character is more universal- from what i've seen, later in this course you'll use terminal to read an email- that will most likely not parse the email body as html.

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Posted July 10, 2016 5:25am by

why cant we use <br> here instead on "\n"?

shouldnt "<br>" work here just fine?

July 10, 2016 6:55am

It's your choice either you use <br> or \n.

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August 19, 2016 12:57pm

It will work just as fine, as long as you'll parse that string as html before displaying. That's done in browser, and most email clients, however, since the content is surrounded by the '<pre>' tag, newline character is more universal- from what i've seen, later in this course you'll use terminal to read an email- that will most likely not parse the email body as html.

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