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CSS:

    pre { whitespace: pre-wrap; }
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_white-space.asp

That's what I've included in my own HN Stylus stylesheet for years. Works on Desktop or Firefox/Android, but other mobile browsers don't support it, for lack of extension support.

Updating the HN markup to offer true blockquote support would be a more complete, though less trivial, solution.

I've suggested the first myself repeatedly.

pg asked how to fix this, and was given the solution, on HN, nine years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592603

The suggestion's been made numerous times:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whitespace%20pre-wrap&sort=byP...




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