Line breaks inside <code>...</code> elements with HTML autowrap enabled

[mtov]

In pandoc 2.17.0.1, it seems autowrap is turned on by default for html output.

However, this generates undesirable line breaks when the wrapping occurs inside a <code> section used in the middle of a paragraph.

Therefore, I'm wondering if it might be possible to avoid automatic line breaks being inserted between <code> tags.

(context: I faced this problem in a markdown document, where in a paragraph I mention: cd directory-name. And now pandoc is inserting a line breaking after cd).

Thanks!

[mb21]

You're only talking about inline code elements, right? There is no <pre in the HTML output? If so, that's unlikely to be related to the line-break changes as whitespace is non-semantic in HTML (with the exception of inside pre elements).

But you could apply some CSS like:

p code {
  white-space: nowrap;
}

[mtov]

Thanks for the answer, mb21!

I applied the CSS you suggested and it worked!

(it seems the problem is somehow caused by the CSS framework I´m using: minicss).

[jgm]

As it turns out, we have

code{white-space: pre-wrap;}

in the default template. So you're right, we need to add some code to ensure that line breaks aren't inserted in HTML code during wrapping.

[jgm]

relevant commits
14b8aa8
and from the old pandoc-templates repo
9601cc5

commit 9601cc502644458c7ddf71394f8e4be74c464420
Author: John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 4 23:01:14 2013 -0800

    Added css to preserve space in <code> tags.
    
    Thanks to Dirk Laurie.

So it seems that this goes back to 2013, prompted by:
https://groups.google.com/g/pandoc-discuss/c/89lwtb8RcRA/m/Pa3YywlCay8J

[jgm]

Demo:

 % pandoc -s -o my.html
`neuth asontue stheuosnt aeosunth asnoetuh asneotuh snatehou snatoehu sntahe ousntahoe unstaheou sntaheou aoeu sthoeu sntaoeusnth ansoetuhs atoeuh saonteu`
^D