Markdown not adding a <br> when adding a line break

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Hey

I can’t seem to add a line break when writing content (markdown).

So, this:

I went to the shop.

The shop was a portal to Hogwarts.

Looks like:

I went to the shop.
The shop was a portal to Hogwarts.

Hugo version:
Hugo Static Site Generator v0.75.1-A4A7BAB7/extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate: 2020-09-15T06:54:33Z

Repo:

All help appreciated.
Joe

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In which content file do you have that markdown? Recently Hugo does not parse markdown inside of div and/or span tags. There are config variables you can set and try out:

[blackfriday]
nofollowLinks = true
noreferrerLinks = true
plainIDAnchors = true
extensions = [
  "laxHtmlBlocks", # laxer block handling... let's see what this does?
  "hardLineBreak", # newlines result in line breaks
]

The hardLineBreak might do the trick.

3

Hi.

Thank you for your response. I don’t have that exact markdown, but all my content files within /blog do not have hardlinebreaks since upgrading to the v0.75.

I was wondering if it was possible to get this working with the new version and Goldmark?

4

Try the hardLineBreak part in my config sample above. It should be added (with the blackfriday header and extension = ) around line 8 of your config.toml

5

Sadly, this does not seem to work. I appreciate your help.

6

Keep in mind that goldmark is now the default renderer. You have to specify blackfriday if you want to be able to use it: https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration-markup/#configure-markup

7

Yes, I tried this but to no avail. I am going to use margin with the article p tag which is not ideal.

8

Wait a sec. Adding a margin to your p-tag solves the issue? Don’t get me wrong, but that is EXACTLY how this has to be solved. It’s not a hack. If two of these lines are inside of p tags each then the outcome that they don’t have distance (between the p-tags) is a bug in your CSS.

9

It doesn’t solve the core issue, but it’s a temp solution until I source the real culprit.
I still can’t add linebreaks, which then add a
tag.

10

This is your problem. You are telling paragraphs to NOT have any margin between them. Add a margin-bottom: 1em; (or 2em) and you will see.

11

Hey.

I’m not sure this is the problem - it didn’t work.
Should Hard line breaks not result in a
tag?

12

What is the output?

<p>I went to the shop.</p>
<p>The shop was a portal to Hogwarts.</p>

or

<p>I went to the shop.
The shop was a portal to Hogwarts.</p>
13

Have you tried setting hardWraps in config.toml?

[markup.goldmark.renderer]
hardWraps = true

I agree that this is not documented well – I actually had to look in the Markdown processor’s repository to understand what this option does.

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This is the best answer.