Minified build removes space in site footer

[jcrd]

Building with hugo --minify combines the lines in this span element so there is no space between 'and' and the heart:

[xoxys]

Thanks for your report! We'll look into this.

[xoxys]

After some testing I have to say we will not spend effort on this. It's not just the heart but also some other places where spaces between HTML elements matters but were stripped... Some of these issues are related to gohugoio/hugo#6892. As the benefit is very low compared to the required effort this won't be fixed, sorry. While recommendation like "don't depend on whitespace in your layout" sounds nice, it seems to be not that straight forward especially for something like embedded icons into the text flow.

The recommendation for this theme is to disable HTML in the minify options:

minify:
  disableHTML: true