Preserve Line

The maximum number of consecutive empty lines to retain (ie: preserve). By default, 3 newlines are preserved.

This is a global option and it will be used for markup, json, styles and scripts languages.

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`0`

Below is we instructed to Æsthetic to preserve 0 empty lines. Notice how before formatting the code has several empty newlines but after formatting all lines are stripped.

<ul>



  <li>Hello</li>

  <li>World</li>



</ul>


<div id="example">

  Lines




</div>

<ul>
  <li>Hello</li>
  <li>World</li>
</ul>
<div id="example">
  Lines
</div>