Markdown Table with remark-gfm and remark-raw adding an excessive amount of newlines before it.

[ranidspace]

I have no idea what's going on so sorry if I'm unable to give enough information. I have a table in a markdown document, it has about 100 rows, however the resulting html it gives out adds 700 empty lines to the source before the table.

I use the following to parse the markdown:

const content = await unified()
  .use(remarkParse)
  .use(remarkGfm)
  .use(remarkRehype, { allowDangerousHtml: true })
  .use(rehypeRaw)
  .use(rehypeSanitize)
  .use(rehypeStringify)
  .process(post.body);

I have an ordered list which needs to be reversed, as well as some tags which markdown doesnt support by default, so I need rehypeRaw (if there's a better way tell me). If I remove Gfm or Raw, it renders without any extra lines. Removing "allowDangerousHTML: true", and Sanitize keeps the extra lines.

It also removes any formatting and newlines inside of the table element html as well.

I checked with nothing else in the document, and the lines were still added. I truncated the table to 5 lines, and it created 32 blank lines in front instead. Any way I tried modifying the table produced the same result. My guess is that all the newlines inside of the table get moved to before it.

It's not visible in the rendered page, and it goes away if I use rehype-format or rehype-minify, but I like the default way it converts it. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

[wooorm]

see rehypejs/rehype-raw#22 and syntax-tree/hast-util-raw#26

[ranidspace]

Im sorry for my language but that's kind of stupid? 700 blank lines which is more than the entire rest of the page is randomly inserted into my files isn't a bug? It's at least unintended behaviour. I'm glad to know this isnt an issue only I'm experiencing but I really think this should be fixed.

[ChristianMurphy]

Unified has small focused modules.
rehype-raw handles parsing raw HTML nodes, no more (like minifying or pretty printing) and no less.
If you need the output to be formatted use one of the several formatters.