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Hmm, ok I see the difference here. I have a feeling the issue stems from something specific in JSX perhaps? If you drop that into a plain HTML file and run in the browser, does the same issue happen?

Quite the opposite actually. JSX does *not* introduce the nbsp, plain HTML does! One of my favorite things about JSX, I can opt-in to adding a space, but in plain HTML I cannot opt-out.

Prettier would format the code the way you want it if it was JSX, but it would do the thing you don't like in plain html.

Hmm, I see. Much to ponder. Thank you for your explanations and time, Ryan!

My pleasure. There are other subtle display bugs you get with that extra whitespace. Prettier needs to keep your HTML accurate, if you didn't have whitespace between elements originally, it won't introduce it when it formats to new lines, the only way is gross splitting on ">".

In the JSX case, it compiles down to function calls and it does not introduce a text node for a newline. But you can opt-in if you want with the ol' ugly `{" "}`. This was one of the small-but-exciting things for me in JSX. I could finally format my "html" cleanly w/o bugs