diff --git a/src/XTerm.NET.Tests/ShellIntegrationMarkAnchorTests.cs b/src/XTerm.NET.Tests/ShellIntegrationMarkAnchorTests.cs
index 59172cf..473b0d2 100644
--- a/src/XTerm.NET.Tests/ShellIntegrationMarkAnchorTests.cs
+++ b/src/XTerm.NET.Tests/ShellIntegrationMarkAnchorTests.cs
@@ -104,6 +104,55 @@ public void Erasing_the_line_leaves_the_mark_alone()
         Assert.Equal(ShellIntegrationMark.PromptStart, MarksOn(t, 0)[0].Kind);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// What pwsh's Clear-Host sends, and what tput clear sends on any modern terminfo: the
+    /// scrollback discarded, the cursor homed, the screen blanked in place. The rows come back
+    /// empty and so must their marks, or a gutter drawn from them shows bars beside nothing.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void Clearing_the_screen_drops_the_marks_on_the_rows_it_blanks()
+    {
+        var t = Fresh();
+        t.Write(Mark("A") + "$ " + Mark("B") + "ls\r\n" + Mark("C") + "file\r\n" + Mark("D;0"));
+        Assert.NotEmpty(MarksOn(t, 0));
+        Assert.NotEmpty(MarksOn(t, 1));
+        Assert.NotEmpty(MarksOn(t, 2));
+
+        t.Write($"{Esc}[3J{Esc}[H{Esc}[2J");
+
+        for (var row = 0; row < 5; row++)
+            Assert.Empty(MarksOn(t, row));
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// ED 0 erases the cursor row through EL, and EL keeps marks: a shell that homes the cursor,
+    /// erases below and then prints its prompt -- zsh redrawing -- keeps the prompt's mark. The
+    /// rows below were erased whole and lose theirs.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void Erasing_below_keeps_the_cursor_rows_mark_and_drops_the_rest()
+    {
+        var t = Fresh();
+        t.Write(Mark("A") + "$ ls\r\n" + Mark("C") + "file\r\n" + Mark("D;0"));
+        t.Write($"{Esc}[1;1H{Esc}[J");
+
+        Assert.Equal(ShellIntegrationMark.PromptStart, Assert.Single(MarksOn(t, 0)).Kind);
+        Assert.Empty(MarksOn(t, 1));
+        Assert.Empty(MarksOn(t, 2));
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>A selective erase exists to leave protected text standing; the marks stand with it.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_selective_screen_erase_leaves_the_marks_alone()
+    {
+        var t = Fresh();
+        t.Write(Mark("A") + "$ ls\r\n" + Mark("C") + "file\r\n");
+        t.Write($"{Esc}[?2J");
+
+        Assert.Single(MarksOn(t, 0));
+        Assert.Single(MarksOn(t, 1));
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public void Reflow_moves_a_mark_to_the_row_and_column_owning_its_position()
     {
diff --git a/src/XTerm.NET/Buffer/BufferLine.cs b/src/XTerm.NET/Buffer/BufferLine.cs
index 7ef6afe..b1b5d4e 100644
--- a/src/XTerm.NET/Buffer/BufferLine.cs
+++ b/src/XTerm.NET/Buffer/BufferLine.cs
@@ -487,7 +487,11 @@ internal void AddMark(LineMark mark)
         _marks.Add(mark);
     }
 
-    /// <summary>Drops every mark. Only line reuse does this; see <see cref="ResetInPlace"/>.</summary>
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Drops every mark. Two things do this: line reuse, see <see cref="ResetInPlace"/>, and a
+    /// whole-screen clear -- ED, DECCOLM, the alternate screen blanked on the way out -- erasing
+    /// the line in full. Reflow drops and re-anchors them too, but that is a move, not a loss.
+    /// </summary>
     internal void ClearMarks() => _marks = null;
 
     /// <summary>Whether this line carries any OSC 8 link span.</summary>
diff --git a/src/XTerm.NET/InputHandler.Protection.cs b/src/XTerm.NET/InputHandler.Protection.cs
index c12e54c..897c617 100644
--- a/src/XTerm.NET/InputHandler.Protection.cs
+++ b/src/XTerm.NET/InputHandler.Protection.cs
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ private void EraseLineCells(BufferLine? line, int start, int end, bool selective
             line.Fill(blank, start, end);
 
             if (wholeLine)
-                line.LineAttribute = Buffer.LineAttribute.Normal;
+                ClearedInFull(line);
 
             return;
         }
@@ -136,6 +136,31 @@ private void EraseLineCells(BufferLine? line, int start, int end, bool selective
         }
 
         if (wholeLine && !survived)
-            line.LineAttribute = Buffer.LineAttribute.Normal;
+            ClearedInFull(line);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// What a line loses when a display erase has cleared it whole: its double-size attribute,
+    /// and its shell integration marks. Reached from ED, and from <see cref="EraseWholeScreen"/>
+    /// -- DECCOLM's clear, and the alternate screen blanked on the way out -- which are the
+    /// other two acts that empty every row.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// The marks are the deliberate exception to "a mark survives the erasing of the cells it sits
+    /// among". That rule exists for EL, which shells use to redraw a prompt they have just marked.
+    /// A display erase is a different act: <c>clear</c> is CSI 3 J, CUP, CSI 2 J -- the scrollback
+    /// discarded and the screen blanked in place -- and the rows that come back blank still carried
+    /// the marks of the commands that were on them. A host drawing a gutter from those marks kept
+    /// painting prompt and exit bars beside empty rows. Kitty and Ghostty both drop a row's prompt
+    /// flag when ED clears it; a shell that clears the screen from inside its own prompt loses that
+    /// one mark under all three, and prints the prompt it marked onto a screen it just emptied
+    /// either way. The cursor row of ED 0 and ED 1 goes through EL and keeps its marks, so a shell
+    /// that homes the cursor and erases below -- zsh, after a redraw -- keeps the mark of the
+    /// prompt it is about to print there.
+    /// </remarks>
+    private static void ClearedInFull(BufferLine line)
+    {
+        line.LineAttribute = Buffer.LineAttribute.Normal;
+        line.ClearMarks();
     }
 }