diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
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+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ <h3 id="encoding-header" class="padding-top-120"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-c
                     <p>File-Container has to be TXT.</p>
                     <p><b>Why?</b> The TXT files are quite simple and easy to understand for non-coders. You can read them and edit them with a simple txt-editor. That's what made the format so popular in the first place. So even if there are many good mark up languages like xml we keep on using TXT-Files for this decade unless there are good reasons to change that.
                     </p>
+                    <p>Empty lines are ignored.</p>
+                    <p><b>Why?</b> When editing a TXT file manually empty lines can be helpful to separate different parts of a song. Lines that consist only of whitespace characters are considered empty.</p>
 
                     <h3 id="mandatory-attributes" class="padding-top-120"><i
                             class="glyphicon glyphicon-exclamation-sign"></i> Mandatory Attributes</h3>
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@@ -95,27 +95,19 @@ Both the header and the body of a file are defined in terms of lines.
 A line is a string of text that is terminated with an end-of-line sequence.
 
 ```abnf
+WSP         = <any unicode character with White_Space=yes>
 end-of-line = ( CR / LF / CRLF )
-empty-line  = end-of-line
+empty-line  = *WSP end-of-line
 ```
 
 Implementations SHOULD use a single Line Feed (`%x0A`) as line terminator.
 Implementations MUST accept the end of input (`EOF`) as a valid line terminator.
-Empty lines are ignored throughout the entire file.
-
-> [!CAUTION]
->
-> Whether empty lines are allowed or not is currently open for discussion ([#50](https://github.com/UltraStar-Deluxe/format/issues/50)).
-> Whether a line that consists only of whitespace is recognized as an empty line has not been decided yet.
+Empty lines are ignored throughout the entire file (note that a line consisting only of whitespace characters is considered empty).
 
 Whitespace is used as a separator in many places of the format.
 Any unicode character with the property `White_Space=yes` is a valid whitespace character (except for the carriage return `%x0D` and line feed `%x0A` both of which are considered line breaks). See [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character) for a list of whitespace characters.
 In the interests of interoperability implementations SHOULD use ASCII spaces (`%x20`) as whitespace.
 
-```abnf
-WSP = <any unicode character with White_Space=yes>
-```
-
 ## 2. The File Header
 
 The header of a song consists of a sequence of key-value pairs.