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Fixes a rendering bug reported against docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform (DOC-2433): the Connect quickstart's producer-pipeline YAML example renders as mapping: |let jokes = [ on one line instead of:

mapping: |
  let jokes = [

https://deploy-preview-419--docs-ui.netlify.app/bloblang-syntax-test#_regression_block_scalar_indicator_must_stay_on_its_own_line

Not a docs-content bug — the source YAML has always had the correct line break (confirmed via git history on the docs source repo). This highlighting extension is what's dropping it.

Root cause

extractBloblangFromBlock() in src/js/17-bloblang-yaml.js trims a mapping/mutation/etc. token's raw text before tokenizing it as Bloblang, which strips the newline + indentation separating the YAML block-scalar indicator (|/>) from the first line of content. processMultilineMapping() then replaces the token's entire original content (token.innerHTML = '') with only the tokenized (already-trimmed) Bloblang — so that leading newline is gone from the rendered output, not just from the tokenizer's input.

This is systemic, not a one-off: it affects every mapping: | (or mutation/request_map/etc.) block containing Bloblang, anywhere on the site.

Fix

Capture the leading newline+indentation from the raw token text before it gets trimmed for tokenization, and prepend it (HTML-escaped) to the wrapper's innerHTML alongside the tokenized Bloblang content, so the original line break survives into the rendered output.

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  • Reproduced the exact bug using the real, unmodified production code path (prism-core.js + prism-bloblang.js + this file) in a real headless Chrome instance via Puppeteer, using the same YAML example currently live on the Connect quickstart page.
  • Applied the fix and confirmed both textContent and a rendered screenshot show the correct line break restored.
  • gulp lint passes.

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extractBloblangFromBlock() trims a mapping/mutation/etc. token's raw text
before tokenizing it as Bloblang, which strips the newline + indentation
that visually separates the YAML block-scalar indicator (| or >) from the
first line of content. processMultilineMapping() then discards the
token's original content entirely (token.innerHTML = '') and replaces it
with only the tokenized (already-trimmed) Bloblang, so that leading
newline never makes it back into the rendered output — collapsing
"mapping: |" and the first line of code onto one visual line, e.g.:

    mapping: |let jokes = [

instead of:

    mapping: |
      let jokes = [

Fix: capture the leading newline+indentation from the raw token text
before it gets trimmed, and prepend it (HTML-escaped) to the wrapper's
innerHTML alongside the tokenized Bloblang content, so the original line
break survives.

Verified against the real production code path (prism-core.js +
prism-bloblang.js + this file, unmodified) in a real headless Chrome
instance via Puppeteer: reproduced the exact bug from a real page
(docs.redpanda.com's Connect quickstart), confirmed the fix restores the
newline in both textContent and the rendered screenshot, using the same
mapping: | example currently live on that page.

Fixes a bug reported against docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform (the
example YAML rendering as `mapping: |let jokes = [` on one line) - not a
docs-content bug, since the source YAML has always had the correct line
break; this highlighting extension was the one dropping it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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processMultilineMapping now preserves leading newline and indentation whitespace from YAML block scalars. The generated wrapper prepends this whitespace to the highlighted Bloblang markup.

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The change restores the missing line break for Bloblang YAML block scalars, but block scalars containing multiple leading blank lines can still lose some formatting. This is a bounded rendering issue, so the PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

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Uses the exact producer-pipeline example from the Connect quickstart
that was reported broken, so a future regression in
processMultilineMapping()'s leading-whitespace preservation shows up
immediately when previewing this page - mapping: | must stay on its own
line, not collapse onto the same line as the first Bloblang statement.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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337-337: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a regression assertion for restored whitespace.

The test at tests/bloblang-interactive/mini-playground-test.html, Lines 463-485, checks only that .bloblang-embedded exists. Assert that the rendered text retains the newline and indentation after the block-scalar indicator.

Based on learnings: “Test changes to Bloblang Playground with large data (50+ items in Input, long mappings with many lines) and verify scrollbars appear in all three editors before committing.”

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In `@src/js/17-bloblang-yaml.js` at line 337, Add a regression assertion in the
relevant mini-playground test for the rendered .bloblang-embedded content,
verifying that its text preserves the newline and indentation following the
block-scalar indicator. Keep the existing existence check and target the
restored whitespace behavior introduced around wrapper.innerHTML.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/js/17-bloblang-yaml.js`:
- Around line 306-317: Update the leadingWhitespace extraction near
extractBloblangFromBlock to capture the complete initial sequence of newlines
and their indentation, not just one newline. Preserve all leading blank lines
and indentation when the token content is restored.

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In `@src/js/17-bloblang-yaml.js`:
- Line 337: Add a regression assertion in the relevant mini-playground test for
the rendered .bloblang-embedded content, verifying that its text preserves the
newline and indentation following the block-scalar indicator. Keep the existing
existence check and target the restored whitespace behavior introduced around
wrapper.innerHTML.
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