From 7bea2672a05f5877acb8690b20222593dab13788 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ZeyuTeng96 <96521059+ZeyuTeng96@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 12:28:35 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] remove leading and trailing \n for HtmlConverter (#262)

---
 src/markitdown/_markitdown.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py b/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py
index ae6a7b4..6f40547 100644
--- a/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py
+++ b/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py
@@ -236,6 +236,9 @@ class HtmlConverter(DocumentConverter):
 
         assert isinstance(webpage_text, str)
 
+        # remove leading and trailing \n
+        webpage_text = webpage_text.strip()
+
         return DocumentConverterResult(
             title=None if soup.title is None else soup.title.string,
             text_content=webpage_text,