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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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   title="NEW - Newlines lost in .innerHTML serialization of &lt;pre&gt; when first character is a newline"
   href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156285">156285</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Newlines lost in .innerHTML serialization of &lt;pre&gt; when first character is a newline
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>WebKit
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>WebKit Nightly Build
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Unspecified
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Unspecified
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>Normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P2
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>HTML DOM
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>webkit-unassigned&#64;lists.webkit.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>zcorpan&#64;gmail.com
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        <pre>The HTML spec says

<span class="quote">&gt; If current node is a pre, textarea, or listing element, and the first child node of the element, if any, is a Text node whose character data has as its first character a U+000A LINE FEED (LF) character, then append a U+000A LINE FEED (LF) character.</span >

<a href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#html-fragment-serialisation-algorithm">https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#html-fragment-serialisation-algorithm</a>

This is because otherwise it doesn't round-trip correctly if the data starts with a LF.

See <a href="https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/944">https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/944</a></pre>
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