I tested it with Fangs to see what a screen reader would probably say
and "The cat is<br />in the kitchen" came out as "The cat is in the
kitchen".
Personally I don't leave a space before or after
I'd go for no space either side of the tag. According to the HTML spec,
the <br /> tag forces a line break, which is whitespace, so anything that
strips it out should replace it as such.
Multiple white space is collapsed ("user agents should collapse input
white space sequences when producing output inter-word space") so both
before and after spaces are unnecessary.
Anthony
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