# Linebreaks

&lt;br&gt;-style linebreaks should be replaced with two spaces followed by a newline.  
This allows the generated mark  
down to render to equivalent HTML even if the `markdown.plugin.softbreaks` setting is enabled.

```
<br>s shouldn't
lead
to trailing spaces in
code
however.
```

Because it isn't

necessary.  
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