Invalid subheading distribution warning with subheading line break and 196+ word

[amboutwe]

What did you expect to happen?

No warning

What happened instead?

Warning appeared
Subheading distribution: 1 section of your text is longer than 300 words and is not separated by any subheadings. Add subheadings to improve readability.

How can we reproduce this behavior?

1. Create new post with content sample below (code view).
2. Check Readability Analysis. See warning about subheading.
3. Remove the word six from the paragraph above 'Section Two'. Warning goes away.
4. Add the word six back. Warning appears again.
5. Switch to code view
6. Remove the line break from 'Section One With Line Break'. Warning goes away.
7. Add line break back. Warning appears.

Technical info

• Platform: WordPress
• Platform version: 5.0.3
• Yoast SEO version: 9.6.x free or premium (also happens with 9.5)

If relevant, which editor is affected (or editors):

• Gutenberg
• Classic Editor plugin

Beta

• Recalibration beta activated

Extra Info

example text

Occurs with

• default block editor
• classic editor plugin active
• recalibration beta active
• recalibration beta inactive

[Djennez]

Issue confirmed, though I doubt that this will see much troubles. To get that line break to happen you would have to be working with HTML in the first place and there would have to be a EOL character within a headings tag.

[amboutwe]

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[priscillamc]

Customer edited the HTML for the Heading Block as a workaround.

[dupenet99]

It was happening today to my writers when they were copy and pasting their text from their editor into WordPress. We run in the same issue we had to remove a carriage return using WP Code editor.

[monbauza]

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