showdownjs
diff --git a/‎dist/showdown.js
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diff --git a/‎dist/showdown.js.map
+1-1 b/‎dist/showdown.js.map
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diff --git a/‎dist/showdown.min.js
+1-1 b/‎dist/showdown.min.js
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diff --git a/‎dist/showdown.min.js.map
+1-1 b/‎dist/showdown.min.js.map
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diff --git a/‎src/subParsers/githubCodeBlocks.js
+1-1 b/‎src/subParsers/githubCodeBlocks.js
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diff --git a/‎test/cases/github-style-codeblock.html
+5 b/‎test/cases/github-style-codeblock.html
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diff --git a/‎test/cases/github-style-codeblock.md
+8 b/‎test/cases/github-style-codeblock.md
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ showdown.subParser('githubCodeBlocks', function (text, options, globals) {
 
   text += '¨0';
 
-  text = text.replace(/(?:^|\n)(```+|~~~+)([^\s`~]*)\n([\s\S]*?)\n\1/g, function (wholeMatch, delim, language, codeblock) {
+  text = text.replace(/(?:^|\n)(```+|~~~+)(?: *)([^\s`~]*)\n([\s\S]*?)\n\1/g, function (wholeMatch, delim, language, codeblock) {
     var end = (options.omitExtraWLInCodeBlocks) ? '' : '\n';
 
     // First parse the github code block
 
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 <p>And some HTML</p>
 <pre><code class="html language-html">&lt;div&gt;HTML!&lt;/div&gt;
 </code></pre>
+<p>And some CSS with spaces before the language declaration</p>
+<pre><code class="css language-css">body {
+font-size: 1.5em;
+}
+</code></pre>
 <p>Use more than 3 backticks</p>
 <pre><code>some code
 </code></pre>
 
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ And some HTML
 <div>HTML!</div>
 ```
 
+And some CSS with spaces before the language declaration
+
+```    css
+body {
+    font-size: 1.5em;
+}
+```
+
 Use more than 3 backticks
 
 `````