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[Rick Corbett]

First line followed by the code for a horizontal line:

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Second line

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Test complete… OK to delete.

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Horizontal rule produces heavy dark line in Firefox, thin line in Chrome:

<hr />

108 minus signs:
————————————————————————————————————
63 underscores:
_______________________________________________________________
168 spaces with strike-out:

171 spaces with hyperlink:
https://www.google.com/search?q=horizontal+rule+html
63 equal signs:
===============================================================

HP Compaq 6000 Pro SFF PC / Windows 10 Pro / 22H2
Intel®Core™2 “Wolfdale” E8400 3.0 GHz / 8.00 GB

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So 63 underscores give the desired result for an unprivileged user. The

<hr />

tag is a pale tan plus on Firefox is thinner than on Chrome as seen when magnified by 4X:

HP Compaq 6000 Pro SFF PC / Windows 10 Pro / 22H2
Intel®Core™2 “Wolfdale” E8400 3.0 GHz / 8.00 GB

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Rick Corbett

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@EyesOnWindows – Many thanks for your testing and for posting the results.

I like the ’63 underscores’ solution so have added the following to my always-loaded AutoHotkey script:

:*:---::_______________________________________________________________ ; Send 63 consecutive underscore characters to form horizontal line by pressing 3 hyphens

Here’s the result after pressing the hyphen key 3 times:

_______________________________________________________________

Yay… success! 🙂

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