An empty line at first has been ignored with HTML formatter

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(Original issue 1111 created by tk0miya on 2015-05-17T06:17:31.490059+00:00)

With HTML formatter, an empty line at first has been ignored.
I got the problem when using -O stripnl=False option.

Maybe, it comes from that browsers ignore return code following <pre> tag.

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(Original comment by coldfix on 2015-05-27T17:34:28.529344+00:00)

Hey, I just wanted to add: this is especially irritating when used with line numbers. The line numbers then appear shifted with regard to the actual code.
This almost always occurs when using linenostep > 1 with linenostart > 1. It can be fixed by inserting an additional space in the first line. Maybe there is another character that is better suited for this purpose.

EDIT: Probably better to use an "empty-line" span like <span class="el"></span>

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(Original comment by tshatch on 2015-11-01T00:14:37.073427+00:00)

Indeed, an empty span is probably the least bad here. There's a rule in http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.1 that specifies that the (first) newline should get eaten.

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(Original comment by birkenfeld on 2016-02-02T11:53:19.209137+00:00)

Fixed HTML formatter output with leading empty lines (closes #1111)

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