From 352d9913ed517baeb4f18ad5ec57b4a7ee83689f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Pearson <davep@davep.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:02:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fall back to the most basic whitespace matching

Seems we're happy that \s along won't be too greedy.
---
 src/textual/widgets/_markdown.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/textual/widgets/_markdown.py b/src/textual/widgets/_markdown.py
index f11e76e933..849e291bd4 100644
--- a/src/textual/widgets/_markdown.py
+++ b/src/textual/widgets/_markdown.py
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ def build_from_token(self, token: Token) -> None:
                     content.append(
                         # Ensure repeating spaces and/or tabs get squashed
                         # down to a single space.
-                        re.sub(r"[ \t]+", " ", child.content),
+                        re.sub(r"\s+", " ", child.content),
                         style_stack[-1],
                     )
                 if child.type == "hardbreak":