How to do a single newline?

Question

How do I do a single newline/carriage return when typing a question or answer?

For example, if I wanted to write some columns with values as in an Excel spreadsheet. I see people do it all the time, but I don't know how. I read the formatting tips and all about the blockquote stuff... did some google'ing, but I still haven't found out how.

The only way I know to do newlines is by pressing the Enter key twice, which makes a new paragraph, creating an empty line, which is not what I want.

Answer 1

You can type two spaces    and press Enter.
Like so.

I wanted to write some columns with values as in an Excel spreadsheet

For longer/pasted text, you can also format as code in many ways, like by indenting with 4 spaces, or by using <pre></pre> tags (which need manual encoding of HTML), like so:

Column 1   Column 2   Column 3
value 1      13            26
value 2      11            22

Answer 2

use the HTML line break tag '<br>', see example below where Line 1 uses the line break & line 2 uses the Enter key.

Example (1: <br>, 2: Enter)

Line 1
Line 2 Line 3

Click the 'edit' button on this posting here for good reference.