Avoid removing meaningful whitespaces. Fixes #5984

src/parser/model/ParserHtml.ts

@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ const ParserHtml = (em?: EditorModel, config: ParserConfig & { returnArray?: boo
               if (typeof obj !== 'object') {
                 obj = { type: compType.id };
               }
-              result = obj
+              result = obj;
               break;
             }
           }
@@ -280,10 +280,13 @@ const ParserHtml = (em?: EditorModel, config: ParserConfig & { returnArray?: boo
             continue;
           }
 
-          // Throw away empty nodes (keep spaces)
+          // Try to keep meaningful whitespaces when possible (#5984)
+          // Ref: https://github.com/GrapesJS/grapesjs/pull/5719#discussion_r1518531999
           if (!opts.keepEmptyTextNodes) {
-            const content = node.nodeValue;
-            if (content != ' ' && !content!.trim()) {
+            const content = node.nodeValue || '';
+            const isFirstOrLast = i === 0 || i === nodesLen - 1;
+            const hasNewLive = content.includes('\n');
+            if (content != ' ' && !content.trim() && (isFirstOrLast || hasNewLive)) {
               continue;
             }
           }

test/specs/parser/model/ParserHtml.ts

@@ -493,6 +493,63 @@ describe('ParserHtml', () => {
     expect(obj.parse(str).html).toEqual(result);
   });
 
+  test('Cleanup useless empty whitespaces', () => {
+    const str = `<div>
+      <p>TestText</p>
+    </div>`;
+    const result = [
+      {
+        tagName: 'div',
+        components: [
+          {
+            tagName: 'p',
+            components: { type: 'textnode', content: 'TestText' },
+            type: 'text',
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+    ];
+    expect(obj.parse(str).html).toEqual(result);
+  });
+
+  test('Keep meaningful whitespaces', () => {
+    const str = `<div>
+      <p>A</p> <p>B</p>   <p>C</p>&nbsp;<p>D</p>
+    </div>`;
+    const result = [
+      {
+        tagName: 'div',
+        type: 'text',
+        components: [
+          {
+            tagName: 'p',
+            components: { type: 'textnode', content: 'A' },
+            type: 'text',
+          },
+          { type: 'textnode', content: ' ', tagName: '' },
+          {
+            tagName: 'p',
+            components: { type: 'textnode', content: 'B' },
+            type: 'text',
+          },
+          { type: 'textnode', content: '   ', tagName: '' },
+          {
+            tagName: 'p',
+            components: { type: 'textnode', content: 'C' },
+            type: 'text',
+          },
+          { type: 'textnode', content: ' ', tagName: '' },
+          {
+            tagName: 'p',
+            components: { type: 'textnode', content: 'D' },
+            type: 'text',
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+    ];
+    expect(obj.parse(str).html).toEqual(result);
+  });
+
   test('Parse node with model attributes to fetch', () => {
     const str =
       '<div id="test1" data-test="test-value" data-gjs-draggable=".myselector" data-gjs-stuff="test">test2 </div>';