HTML Horizontal Line

The HTML horizontal line is used to draw a horizontal line in a web page. It is used to divide an HTML page into the different horizontal sections. Horizontal lines are required when we need to display different types of content in the same HTML page in a distinct manner. The HR element is used to represent the horizontal line. It is an empty tag. Therefore, it does not contain any content in it.

HTML Horizontal Line Attributes

The table given below describes attributes of horizontal line (HR element).

Attribute	Purpose
class	Defines the name of class
lang	Defines the language for the rule
dir	Defines the direction of the rule, that is from left to right or right to left
id	Defines the value of id
onClick	Opens an HTML document on a mouse click
onDblClick	Opens an HTML document on a double-click
onKeyDown	Opens an HTML document on pressing of a key
onKeyPress	Opens an HTML document on pressing and releasing of the mouse button
onKeyUp	Opens an HTML document when a key is released
onMouseDown	Opens an HTML document on clicking of a mouse button
onMouseMove	Opens and HTML document on moving of the mouse pointer
onMouseOut	Opens an HTML document when the mouse pointer moves out of the document
onMouseOver	Opens an HTML document when the mouse pointer moves over the element
onMouseUp	Opens an HTML document on releasing of the mouse button
style	Defines an inline style of the element
title	Provides an extra information about the element

HTML Creating Horizontal Line Example

Here is an example shows how to create a horizontal line in HTML.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <title>HTML Horizontal Line Example</title>
</head>
<body>

<p>This is HTML Horizontal Line Example.
<hr />
shows how to create a horizontal line on a web page.</p>

</body>
</html>

Here is the sample output produced by the above HTML Horizontal Line example code: