>Hi, I am translating an HTML document, and was curious about an HTML code I saw repeatedly:
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>< br / >
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>without the extra spaces at the beginning and the end, but with a space between "br" and "/".
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>My HTML knowledge is somewhat basic; I know about begin and end tags, but what does the slash at the end of a tag do?

The slash signifies the tag ends. There will be no separate ending tag.

The br is a simple line break. It has no other attributes.