Create two blank lines in Markdown

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I am adding Markdown support to my CMS editor   When writing Markdown content  how do I create two empty lines   I have been trying  but I always get only one line

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You can use the sequence of a no-break space (U+00a0) followed by two spaces (U+0020×2) followed by a newline (U+000a) repeatedly to achieve this. Two or more times is required depending on your use case.

Using (not markdown interpreted here, but) actual white space characters (theoretically copy-and-paste-able):

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You can do it perfectly using this   texttextexttexttext  amp nbsp   amp nbsp  texttexttexttexttext

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Try adding multiple spaces  two spaces   one  lt br gt     mycode space  space  space  space

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In GitHub Wiki markdown I used hash marks     followed by two spaces to make the line break larger   It doesn t actually give you multiple line breaks but it made one large line break and served me well for my needs   Instead of   text  space  space  more text   I did   text  hash mark  space  space  more text

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amp nbsp    This HTML entity which means  non-breaking space  will help you for each line break

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I only know the options below  It would be great to take a list of all of them and comment them differences     RAW    Creates 2 Lines that CAN be selected as text     -------------------------------------------------      The non-breaking space ASCII character  amp nbsp   amp nbsp       HTML  lt  br   gt  tag  lt br   gt   lt br   gt      Creates 2 Lines that CANNOT be selected as text     -------------------------------------------------      HTML Entity  amp NewLine   amp NewLine   amp NewLine       Backticks with a space inside followed by two spaces   space   space  space    space   space  space       sample               End

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I test on a lot of Markdown implementations  The non-breaking space ASCII character  amp nbsp   followed by a blank line  would give a blank line  Repeating this pair would do the job  So far I haven t failed any    nbsp    nbsp    nbsp   For example   nbsp    nbsp    nbsp   Hello   nbsp    nbsp    nbsp    nbsp    nbsp    nbsp   world    nbsp    nbsp

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Backtick quotes with a space inside and two spaces to follow  Repeat as needed for more lines   text1 text1   space   space  space    space   space  space  text2 text2   It looks decent in Markdown source   text1 text1             text2 text2

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If you are using a library like markdown-it or PythonMarkdown this can also be solved by replacing two line breaks  in Regex   n n  gm  with a line break and an invisible character   n    before rendering  Note that the character after  n is an Alt 0160 or an invisible character  For example  using markdown-it  although it work for any other lib too  with the input  1  2   3   4    5  Rendered with md render string data replace   n n  gm   quot  n  quot    you will get

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For an empty line in Markdown  escape a space       and then add a new line   Example           Remember  escape a space and escape a new line  That way is Markdown compliant and should compile properly in any compiler  You may have to select the example text to see how it is set up

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In Markdown flavours that support equation output  the following should work on a line by itself  with empty lines before and after  repeat for more lines             It is basically an equation containing nothing but a single equation-white-space  The benefit is that in Markdown flavours that include both PDF and HTML output options  including Rmarkdown   it should be understood in the same way for both output types  whereas I m not sure how PDF output would interpret  lt br  or  amp nbsp

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I tried everything but this worked for me while using Pandoc markdown with TexLive as LaTex engine   In order to add blank lines  you can try adding a blank line but remove         newline   Just repeat the above  each will add a new blank line

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If your Markdown compiler supports HTML  you can add  lt br  gt  lt br  gt  in the Markdown source

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Basically  if the library you are using is CommonMark-compliant  you can add multiple hard line breaks   lt br   gt   easily  Here s a quotation from CommonMark s latest specifications  0 28       A line break  not in a code span or HTML tag  that is preceded by two or more spaces and does not occur at the end of a block is parsed as a hard line break  rendered in HTML as a  tag    and then        For a more visible alternative  a backslash before the line ending may be used instead of two spaces   The specification is quite clear  However  the library I have been using MarkDig  doesn t quite work with the two spaces technique  must be a bug   but it works flawlessly with a backlash   That said  this input     Line one        Line two   will produce four hard line breaks after  Line one   You can see it here  using backlash      https   babelmark github io  text Line one 5C 0A 5C 0A 5C 0A 5C 0ALine two 0A  Notice how all CommonMark-compliant implementations will get it right

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You can use  lt br  gt  lt br  gt  or  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  or

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I don t know if it works with other editors  but in VSCode a simple   followed immediately by a newline does the trick for my purposes and can be repeated infinitely   Unlike the backtick quotes which have zero output there   It is in fact an empty title line  though - so any document outline or auto-formatting might look funky

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