inline elements rendered with linebreak?

[allefeld]

Example: I'm trying to create a p element that contains the text "goodbye cruel world", i.e. with an inline i element:

par = dominate.tags.p('goodbye ', dominate.tags.i('cruel'), ' world')
print(par.render())

Result:

<p>goodbye 
  <i>cruel</i> world
</p>

Why is there a linebreak '\n' inserted before (but not after) the i element? (Which can amount to the addition of whitespace.)

Alternatively, is there a way to directly specify the innerHTML of the p element? Something like

dominate.tags.p(inner_html='goodbye <i>cruel</i> world')

[Knio]

This seems to be a bug in the i element not specifying inline (see: https://github.com/Knio/dominate/blob/master/dominate/tags.py#L703-L704)

As a workaround, you can pass .render(pretty=False) , or set the is_pretty property to False on par (ie if you want to maintain the pretty formatting for the rest of the document):

>>> par.render(pretty=False)
'<p>goodbye <i>cruel</i> world</p>'

>>> par.is_pretty = False
>>> par.render()
'<p>goodbye <i>cruel</i> world</p>'