Bare backslash rendered as backslash before heading

[martijnthe]

Initial checklist

• I read the support docs
• I read the contributing guide
• I agree to follow the code of conduct
• I searched issues and discussions and couldn’t find anything (or linked relevant results below)

Affected package

react-markdown@9.0.3

Steps to reproduce

To repro, I used the demo page and added this at the top:

Test
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# A demo of `react-markdown`

Actual behavior

In the screenshot below, you can see that the backslash before the heading is being rendered as a backslash and not as a line break.
I tried adding a newline after the backslash, but that also doesn't work-around the problem.
When I remove the heading (#) the backslash does get rendered as a line break.

Expected behavior

Backslashes before a heading should also be rendered as a line break.

Runtime

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[wooorm]

That is how markdown works.

[github-actions]

Hi! This was closed. Team: If this was fixed, please add phase/solved. Otherwise, please add one of the no/* labels.

[martijnthe]

@wooorm thanks for your quick reply.

Is there a way to avoid getting the last backslash before the heading rendered? I tried adding another line break but that also didn’t help.

[wooorm]

Don’t: stick with markdown. It renders the same everywhere.

Things are this way, because HTML works that way: it is not semantic to use a br at the end of a paragraph.