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> Actually the actual output all newlines had been stripped. Not stripped, but replaced by spaces. Also, the linked image looks like /etc/passwd, not /etc/host

by jwilk 10y ago

> Actually the actual output all newlines had been stripped. Not stripped, but replaced by spaces. Also, the linked image looks like /etc/passwd, not /etc/hosts. > Weird. Not weird. That's how whitespace in HTML works.

kijin 10y ago
OP tested his hack on an online Markdown converter, so it probably has more to do with Markdown's treatment of whitespace than HTML's. As it happens, Markdown ignores most non-consecutive newlines.
- detaro 10y ago
  It's a converter taking HTML as input, converting it to Markdown.