Shortcode adds newline

[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. */ -}}