From 697c2b2a58cb2f03fd6884cd431ca4b5c6a5efac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: unclecode <unclecode@kidocode.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2026 07:06:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: add newline before opening code fence in html2text
 (#462)

From PR #462 by @jtanningbed
---
 crawl4ai/html2text/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crawl4ai/html2text/__init__.py b/crawl4ai/html2text/__init__.py
index 04d3d16e..9f241bac 100644
--- a/crawl4ai/html2text/__init__.py
+++ b/crawl4ai/html2text/__init__.py
@@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ class CustomHTML2Text(HTML2Text):
         # Handle pre tags
         if tag == "pre":
             if start:
-                self.o("```\n")  # Markdown code block start
+                self.o("\n```\n")  # Markdown code block start
                 self.inside_pre = True
             else:
                 self.o("\n```\n")  # Markdown code block end