Re: [Docutils-users] HTML writer: initial EOL after <pre>

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2016-08-14, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
>> On 2016-08-11, Alan Isaac wrote:
>>> 3. If styling is not a solution, should PRE elements be written
>>> with content following immediately (rather than with
>>> an initial EOL)?


> On 8/13/2016 6:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:>
>> I think so. This is what the "html5" writer does.


> I found this explanation:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17722951/difference-in-display-between-html-and-xhtml
> It seems from this explanation that the XHTML writers
> should not write an extra EOL immediately after a PRE tag,
> but it should not matter for HTML 5.

Yes. However, to be on the safe side, the "html5-plain" writer writes
"polyglott" HTML that is also valid XML.

Günter