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Bug 13653 - For PRE element "In the HTML syntax, a leading newline character immediately following the pre element start tag is stripped." The same should hold true for code also, when use inside a pre (<pre><code> my code </code></pre>) If not in the spec, could you
Summary: For PRE element "In the HTML syntax, a leading newline character immediately ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-08-04 01:41 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-05 14:50 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-08-04 01:41:09 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
For PRE element

"In the HTML syntax, a leading newline character immediately following the pre
element start tag is stripped."

The same should hold true for code also, when use inside a pre (<pre><code>
my code
</code></pre>)

If not in the spec, could you add it?

Reason: same as for <pre>: code readibility

Posted from: 89.157.69.5
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.122 Safari/534.30
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:05:03 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1
Comment 2 Simon Pieters 2011-08-05 14:50:28 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The line stripping is done because it's what browsers did prior to specifying the parsing rules. Browsers don't do it for <code>. Changing this would affect existing sites that use <pre><code>\n and expect a leading newline.