Shortcode adds newline

[jbirnick]

I have a shortcode bg to highlight a word with a background color:

<span style="background-color: {{ .Get "color"  | safeCSS }};">{{ .Inner }}</span>

Now when I call it within markdown, e.g. with

This is an {{< bg color="red" >}}important phrase{{< /bg >}}, and then comes a comma.

then the output on the website looks like:

This is an important phrase , and then comes a comma.

The problem is the space in front of the comma. It comes because the shortcode call introduces newlines into the HTML.

How can I solve this? I’m grateful for any help!

[bwintx]

Turns out there’s an interesting fix to this:

Markdown render hooks extra space

Yes, and as @pamubay pointed out, it ends with a newline character. If your file did not end with a newline character, the following command would display the > character: tail -c 1 layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.html Instead, the above command produced a blank line, indicating that your file ends with a newline character. Add this at the end of your file to consume the newline: {{- /* This comment removes trailing newlines. */ -}}

[jbirnick]

Thanks, that works!