remove removeNewlinesFromInlineTags from renderContent (#33586)

lib/render-content/renderContent.js

@@ -10,11 +10,6 @@ const blankLine = '\\s*?[\r\n]*'
 const startNextLine = '[^\\S\r\n]*?[-\\*] <a'
 const blankLineInList = new RegExp(`(${endLine})${blankLine}(${startNextLine})`, 'mg')
 
-// used below to remove unwanted newlines from inline tags in tables
-const inlineTags = ['a', 'code', 'em']
-const inlineTagString = `(?:${inlineTags.join('|')})`
-const inlineTagRegex = new RegExp(`\n?(</?${inlineTagString}>?)\n?`, 'gm')
-
 // parse multiple times because some templates contain more templates. :]
 async function renderContent(template = '', context = {}, options = {}) {
   // If called with a falsy template, it can't ever become something
@@ -51,11 +46,6 @@ async function renderContent(template = '', context = {}, options = {}) {
     const vFile = await processor.process(template)
     let html = vFile.toString()
 
-    // Remove unwanted newlines (which appear as spaces) from inline tags inside tables
-    if (html.includes('<table>')) {
-      html = removeNewlinesFromInlineTags(html)
-    }
-
     if (options.textOnly) {
       html = fastTextOnly(html)
     }
@@ -73,18 +63,6 @@ async function renderContent(template = '', context = {}, options = {}) {
   }
 }
 
-function removeNewlinesFromInlineTags(html) {
-  const $ = cheerio.load(html)
-
-  // see https://cheerio.js.org/#html-htmlstring-
-  $(inlineTags.join(','))
-    .parents('td')
-    .get()
-    .map((tag) => $(tag).html($(tag).html().replace(inlineTagRegex, '$1')))
-
-  return $('body').html()
-}
-
 // Given a piece of HTML return it without HTML. E.g.
 // `<p>Foo &amp; bar</p>` becomes `Foo & bar`
 // and `A <a href="">link</a> and <code>code</code>` becomes `A link and code`.