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Check the computed styles with DEV Tools without using any own CSS. The result will be browser dependent. If you don’t like that, you will have to override these settings, some even apply a CSS reset (search for it) to kill all browser influence.
- **Third** : own CSS styling
Will add/change the stuff - again use DEV tools to see the effects and figure out which rules adds something, especially with these _white-space-collapse_ settings and/or minification.
- **Fourth** : There might be still some differences between different Browsers in some situation and or for some tags …
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**Author:**  [@Tom\_Durand](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Tom_Durand)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/is-a-linebreak-in-the-html-between-list-elements-normal/56589/4 "2026-01-20T18:54:47Z")
Yes I know how to put paragraphs inside a list, and it is not it. Browsers behave identically, and no weird markup appears in the code. However, like I said, a linebreak is introduced by Goldmark/hugo, of which white-space:pre/pre-wrap/pre-line causes the literal interpretation.
Here’s a repo: [GitHub - evanescente-ondine/hugo-sample](https://github.com/evanescente-ondine/hugo-sample.git)
First time in my life I managed to set up a repo ever, houra.
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**Author:**  [@jmooring](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/jmooring)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/is-a-linebreak-in-the-html-between-list-elements-normal/56589/5 "2026-01-20T20:09:35Z")
> [@Tom\_Durand](#):
>
> a linebreak is introduced by Goldmark/hugo
I’m not sure what that means. Our Markdown interpreter (Goldmark) is doing exactly what it should be doing per the CommonMark specification.
Try it:
[https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/?text=List -%20item -%20item](https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/?text=List%0A%0A-%20item%0A-%20item%0A%0A)
This:
```plaintext
List
- item
- item
```
Is rendered to this:
```html
List
```
If you minify your build it looks like this:
```html
List
```
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**Author:**  [@irkode](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/irkode)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 8:36pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/is-a-linebreak-in-the-html-between-list-elements-normal/56589/6 "2026-01-20T20:36:37Z")
I took the htdocs/index.html and opened it directly in Chrome. As I said NO CSS → Browser Style
No blank line but margins added.
Sometimes a picture helps:
p.s.
> [@jmooring](#):
>
> Try it:
> [https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/?text=List -%20item -%20item](https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/?text=List%0A%0A-%20item%0A-%20item%0A%0A)
exactly where I verified my **first** point
p.s.
> [@Tom\_Durand](#):
>
> Browsers behave identically
These days it’s much better but still some quirks out there (edge shows the same values. … both use the same browser engine, dunno how firefox or safire will do)
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**Author:**  [@Tom\_Durand](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Tom_Durand)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/is-a-linebreak-in-the-html-between-list-elements-normal/56589/7 "2026-01-20T21:38:19Z")
Ok, I get it. Then it bothers me that the minifier (works now, go figure) removes newlines and double spaces and tabulations alike, both inside and outside tags. But I like and use tabulations in particular, which don’t get their own html elements unlike linebreaks except inside `` ☹
Is there any way to preserve tabs ? The actual Tab character is unlikely to be outputed by programs and much more likely by users, so why touch it…
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**Author:**  [@chrillek](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/chrillek)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 7:30am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/is-a-linebreak-in-the-html-between-list-elements-normal/56589/8 "2026-01-21T07:30:08Z")
Whitespace is often meaningless in HTML, especially between elements.
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**Author:**  [@irkode](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/irkode)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 10:33am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/is-a-linebreak-in-the-html-between-list-elements-normal/56589/9 "2026-01-21T10:33:02Z")
mmh, I suppose that is even handled before minify by the Markdown engine.
There’s no concept as indenting lines in a paragraph using spaces or tabs in Markdown as in the good old typewriter _paper_ writing.
> [Common mark Spec # TABS](https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#tabs)
> Tabs in lines are not expanded to [spaces](https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#space). However, in **contexts where spaces help to define block structur** e, **tabs behave as if they were replaced by spaces** with a tab **stop of 4 characters**.
>
> Thus, for example, a tab can be used instead of four spaces in an indented code block. (Note, however, that internal tabs are passed through as literal tabs, not expanded to spaces.)
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 10:33am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/is-a-linebreak-in-the-html-between-list-elements-normal/56589/10 "2026-01-23T10:33:28Z")
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