New lines in auto .Description

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1

When I don’t specify a front-matter description variable, Hugo supplies one anyway from .Content, which is perfect.

Only, even with {{- -}} extra space stops, it seems the automated .Description variable contains new lines?

Is there a setting I missed or some code to pipe .Description through that will strip the new lines?

2

Are you referring to .Summary? The .Description field is not related to .Content in any way.

3

Good to know. My mistake. Yes, my code prefers .Description over .Summary, and is in this case without .Description likely then extracting .Summary with newline characters.

4

I am not sure if you still have a question.

If you want to remove trailing newlines:

{{ chomp .Summary }}

If you want to remove leading and trailing newlines:

{{ trim .Summary "\n" }}

Additionally, when using .Summary, the value depends on how the summary was defined. See this issue comment for more details:
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8910#issuecomment-903158600

5

Interesting …

In this case, the issue is likely related to ’The built-in mechanisms for summary assignment and rendering have [created confusion](https://discourse.gohugo.io/search?q=summary) for several years. in the link you posted.

The content .Summary is rendering to description meta contains:

<p> ...text... </p>
<p> ...text... </p>
<p> ...text... </p>
<p> ...text... </p>

That introduces a new line character after each p tag, which doesn’t obviously break the site, but messes up anyway the pretty flow I prefer after minification.

Can confirm that’s on the wait list, i.e. ‘check back later’?

Then there is an additional query, something simple I didn’t yet read:
It seems .Description is the same as .Params.description, yes?