From 904fc10d89300a3efa5a826a20adfce6f69eb03f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mohamed Boudra <boudra.moha@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:24:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(markdown): preserve adjacency around inline HTML

---
 packages/app/src/components/markdown/html.ts          |  9 +--------
 packages/app/src/components/markdown/renderer.test.ts | 10 +++++++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/app/src/components/markdown/html.ts b/packages/app/src/components/markdown/html.ts
index 5babb682c2..467430fb72 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/components/markdown/html.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/components/markdown/html.ts
@@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ export function normalizeMarkdownHtml(source: string): string {
     if (EMPHASIS[name]) return EMPHASIS[name];
     const boundary = layoutBoundary(name, source, raw, offset, closing);
     if (boundary !== null) return boundary;
-    if (name === "a")
-      return markdownAnchor(raw, closing, links) + inlineBoundary(source, raw, offset, closing);
+    if (name === "a") return markdownAnchor(raw, closing, links);
     if (name === "img" && !closing) {
       const { src, alt = "" } = attributes(raw);
       return src ? `![${alt.replace(/[[\]\\]/g, "\\$&")}](<${markdownUrl(src)}>)` : alt;
@@ -126,11 +125,6 @@ function markdownAnchor(raw: string, closing: boolean, links: (string | undefine
   return href === undefined ? "" : "[";
 }
 
-function inlineBoundary(source: string, raw: string, offset: number, closing: boolean): string {
-  if (!closing) return "";
-  return /^(?:<[A-Za-z]|[A-Za-z0-9])/.test(source.slice(offset + raw.length)) ? " " : "";
-}
-
 function blockBoundary(source: string, raw: string, offset: number, closing: boolean): string {
   if (closing) {
     const following = source.slice(offset + raw.length);
@@ -160,6 +154,5 @@ function layoutBoundary(
   if (BLOCK_TAGS.has(name)) return blockBoundary(source, raw, offset, closing);
   if ((name === "td" || name === "th") && closing)
     return /^<t[dh]\b/i.test(source.slice(offset + raw.length)) ? " " : "";
-  if (name === "span") return inlineBoundary(source, raw, offset, closing);
   return null;
 }
diff --git a/packages/app/src/components/markdown/renderer.test.ts b/packages/app/src/components/markdown/renderer.test.ts
index ffe5e0480c..a6ad28725f 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/components/markdown/renderer.test.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/components/markdown/renderer.test.ts
@@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ describe("GitHub comment HTML normalization", () => {
       "**Review details**\n\nBody **stays**.",
     ],
     ["Before<!-- private -->After", "BeforeAfter"],
+    ["<span>file.</span>ts", "file.ts"],
+    ['<a href="https://example.com">Git</a>Hub', "[Git](<https://example.com>)Hub"],
+    ["<span>Git</span><span>Hub</span>", "GitHub"],
+    ["<span>Git</span> Hub", "Git Hub"],
     ["<div><span>Keep the content</span></div>", "Keep the content"],
     [
       '<a href="https://example.com"><strong>Review</strong></a>',
@@ -297,14 +301,14 @@ it("uses the first repeated image reference definition", () => {
   );
 });
 
-it("keeps Greptile header links and block text separated", () => {
+it("preserves authored adjacency in the Greptile header", () => {
   const source =
     '<h2><a href="https://app.greptile.com/api/retrigger?id=81261069"><picture><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://greptile-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/badges/RetriggerDark.svg?v=2"><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://greptile-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/badges/Retrigger.svg?v=2"><img alt="Retrigger" src="https://greptile-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/badges/Retrigger.svg?v=2" align="right"></picture></a><a href="https://app.greptile.com/paseo/github/getpaseo/paseo/-/pull/6973"><picture><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://greptile-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/badges/ViewInGreptileDark.svg?v=2"><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://greptile-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/badges/ViewInGreptile.svg?v=2"><img alt="View in Greptile" src="https://greptile-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/badges/ViewInGreptile.svg?v=2" align="right"></picture></a>Confidence Score: 2/5</h2>';
   const rendered = prepareMarkdownSource(source, undefined, { supportsSvg: false }).render();
   expect(rendered).toContain(
-    "[Retrigger](<https://app.greptile.com/api/retrigger?id=81261069>) [View in Greptile]",
+    "[Retrigger](<https://app.greptile.com/api/retrigger?id=81261069>)[View in Greptile]",
   );
-  expect(rendered).toContain(") Confidence Score: 2/5");
+  expect(rendered).toContain(")Confidence Score: 2/5");
 });
 
 it("keeps paragraph, heading and table-row boundaries when stripping HTML", () => {