9 The HTML syntax — HTML5
october 2009 by hubpin
"A single newline may be placed immediately after the start tag of pre and textarea elements. This does not affect the processing of the element. The otherwise optional newline must be included if the element's contents themselves start with a newline (because otherwise the leading newline in the contents would be treated like the optional newline, and ignored)."
ANNOYING!
october 2009 by hubpin