# Space in markdown links

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/space-in-markdown-links/41745>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [December 4, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/space-in-markdown-links/41745 "2022-12-04T12:57:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![tut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@tut](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/tut)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/space-in-markdown-links/41745/1 "2022-12-04T12:57:47Z")

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This could be either be a Hugo or Goldmark issue. When a link is placed between brackets, it leaves a space at the opening of the bracket. For example, copy the sentence below to a markdown file then build the site and observe.

```auto
Lorem ipsum ([Dola sit](/) amet) markdown"

```

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**Author:** ![nfriedli](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/nfriedli/32/26027_2.png) [@nfriedli](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/nfriedli)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/space-in-markdown-links/41745/2 "2022-12-04T16:36:35Z")

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Just tested in [commonmark.js demo](https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/) and everything seems to be good.

HTML produced:

```auto
<p>Lorem ipsum (<a href="/">Dola sit</a> amet) markdown&quot;</p>

```

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**Author:** ![tut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@tut](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/tut)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/space-in-markdown-links/41745/3 "2022-12-04T17:09:07Z")

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Turns out it was my markdown render hook adding the trailing white spaces due to a missing `-` at the end of the last variable. I need to audit my site now because I had a similar issue yesterday with the dashes used to trim white space.

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/space-in-markdown-links/41745/4 "2022-12-06T17:09:53Z")

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