fix(mdviewer): prevent Turndown from indenting image-only links on save

src-mdviewer/src/components/editor.js

@@ -1667,6 +1667,43 @@
         }
     });
 
+    // Anchor wrapping only <img> children (e.g. badge rows). The default Turndown
+    // path leaks the inter-image space text nodes outside the link as flanking
+    // whitespace, producing N-1 leading spaces before the [. The corresponding
+    // DOM preprocessing in convertToMarkdown strips those text nodes so the
+    // anchor's textContent is empty; this rule then re-emits the joining spaces
+    // inside the [...] so they stay contained.
+    td.addRule("imageOnlyLink", {
+        filter(node) {
+            if (node.nodeName !== "A" || !node.getAttribute("href")) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            if (node.childNodes.length === 0) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            for (const child of node.childNodes) {
+                if (!(child.nodeType === 1 && child.nodeName === "IMG")) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+            }
+            return true;
+        },
+        replacement(content, node) {
+            const href = node.getAttribute("href") || "";
+            const title = node.getAttribute("title");
+            const titlePart = title ? ` "${title.replace(/"/g, '\\"')}"` : "";
+            const parts = [];
+            for (const child of node.childNodes) {
+                const alt = child.getAttribute("alt") || "";
+                const src = child.getAttribute("src") || "";
+                const imgTitle = child.getAttribute("title");
+                const imgTitlePart = imgTitle ? ` "${imgTitle.replace(/"/g, '\\"')}"` : "";
+                parts.push(`![${alt}](${src}${imgTitlePart})`);
+            }
+            return `[${parts.join(" ")}](${href}${titlePart})`;
+        }
+    });
+
     return td;
 }
 
@@ -1717,6 +1754,32 @@
         parent.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(mark.textContent), mark);
         parent.normalize();
     });
+    // Image-only links (e.g. badge rows): drop whitespace text nodes between
+    // <img> siblings. Otherwise Turndown's flanking-whitespace handling reads
+    // the anchor's textContent (N-1 spaces for N images) and prepends those
+    // spaces before the [ in the output, indenting the line. The imageOnlyLink
+    // Turndown rule re-emits the joining single space inside the brackets.
+    clone.querySelectorAll("a[href]").forEach((a) => {
+        if (a.childNodes.length === 0) {
+            return;
+        }
+        for (const child of a.childNodes) {
+            if (child.nodeType === 1 && child.nodeName === "IMG") {
+                continue;
+            }
+            if (child.nodeType === 3 && /^\s*$/.test(child.nodeValue)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            return;
+        }
+        const textNodes = [];
+        for (const child of a.childNodes) {
+            if (child.nodeType === 3) {
+                textNodes.push(child);
+            }
+        }
+        textNodes.forEach((t) => t.remove());
+    });
     return turndown.turndown(clone.innerHTML);
 }
 

test/spec/md-editor-integ-test.js

@@ -1874,6 +1874,51 @@ define(function (require, exports, module) {
                 await awaitsForDone(CommandManager.execute(Commands.FILE_CLOSE, { _forceClose: true }),
                     "force close doc3.md");
             }, 15000);
+
+            it("should image-only link with multiple images round-trip without leaking whitespace", async function () {
+                // Regression: Turndown's flanking-whitespace handling used to bubble
+                // the inter-<img> spaces inside an <a> out before the [, indenting
+                // the line by N-1 spaces (N images). README's sonarcloud badge row
+                // had 9 images, gaining 8 leading spaces on every save.
+                await _openMdFile("doc1.md");
+                const editor = EditorManager.getActiveEditor();
+
+                const badgesLine = "[![One](https://example.com/1.png) " +
+                    "![Two](https://example.com/2.png) " +
+                    "![Three](https://example.com/3.png) " +
+                    "![Four](https://example.com/4.png)](https://example.com/link)" +
+                    "[![Five](https://example.com/5.png)](https://example.com/link2)";
+                editor.document.setText("# Badges\n\n" + badgesLine + "\n");
+
+                await awaitsFor(() => {
+                    const win = _getMdIFrameWin();
+                    return win && win.__getCurrentContent &&
+                        win.__getCurrentContent() === editor.document.getText();
+                }, "viewer to sync with badges content");
+
+                await _enterEditMode();
+
+                // Force HTML → markdown round-trip through convertToMarkdown
+                const win = _getMdIFrameWin();
+                win.__triggerContentSync();
+
+                // Wait for the debounced content sync to flow back to CM.
+                // Use awaitsFor on a stable condition rather than a fixed wait.
+                await awaitsFor(() => {
+                    const text = editor.document.getText();
+                    const lines = text.split("\n");
+                    const line = lines[2] || "";
+                    return line.includes("example.com/1.png") &&
+                        line.includes("example.com/5.png");
+                }, "CM doc to contain the round-tripped badges line");
+
+                const roundTripped = editor.document.getText().split("\n")[2];
+                expect(roundTripped.startsWith(" ")).toBe(false);
+                expect(roundTripped).toBe(badgesLine);
+
+                await awaitsForDone(CommandManager.execute(Commands.FILE_CLOSE, { _forceClose: true }),
+                    "force close doc1.md");
+            }, 15000);
         });
 
         describe("Empty Line Placeholder", function () {