fix for other styling fixes

packages/mermaid/src/rendering-util/createText.ts

@@ -224,7 +224,9 @@ export const createText = async (
     const vertexNode = await addHtmlSpan(el, node, width, classes, addSvgBackground);
     return vertexNode;
   } else {
-    const structuredText = markdownToLines(text.replace('<br>', '<br/>'), config);
+    //sometimes the user might add br tags with 1 or more spaces in between, so we need to replace them with <br/>
+    const sanitizeBR = text.replace(/<br\s*\/?>/g, '<br/>');
+    const structuredText = markdownToLines(sanitizeBR.replace('<br>', '<br/>'), config);
     const svgLabel = createFormattedText(
       width,
       el,
@@ -235,9 +237,13 @@ export const createText = async (
       if (/stroke:/.exec(style)) {
         style = style.replace('stroke:', 'lineColor:');
       }
-      select(svgLabel)
-        .select('text')
-        .attr('style', style.replace(/color:/g, 'fill:'));
+
+      const nodeLabelTextStyle = style
+        .replace(/stroke:[^;]+;?/g, '')
+        .replace(/stroke-width:[^;]+;?/g, '')
+        .replace(/fill:[^;]+;?/g, '')
+        .replace(/color:/g, 'fill:');
+      select(svgLabel).attr('style', nodeLabelTextStyle);
       // svgLabel.setAttribute('style', style);
     } else {
       //On style, assume `stroke`, `stroke-width` are used for edge path, so remove them

packages/mermaid/src/rendering-util/handle-markdown-text.ts

@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ export function markdownToHTML(markdown: string, { markdownAutoWrap }: MermaidCo
       return `<em>${node.tokens?.map(output).join('')}</em>`;
     } else if (node.type === 'paragraph') {
       return `<p>${node.tokens?.map(output).join('')}</p>`;
+    } else if (node.type === 'space') {
+      return '';
     } else if (node.type === 'html') {
       return `${node.text}`;
     }