In code examples (e.g. foo_examples_test.go), leading whitespace is stripped from lines of a string declared with backticks, e.g.:

func Example() {
	foo := `One
    Two
Three`
	fmt.Println(foo)
	// Output:
	// One
	//     Two
	// Three
}

That will be rendered as follows by godoc:

<div class="expanded">
		<p class="exampleHeading toggleButton">▾ <span class="text">Example</span></p>
		
		
		
			<p>Code:</p>
			<pre class="code">foo := `One
Two
Three`
fmt.Println(foo)
<span class="comment"></pre>
			
			<p>Output:</p>
			<pre class="output">One
    Two
Three
</pre>
			
		
	</div>
</div>

...ergo the code will appear without the crucial indentation in the string:

foo := `One
Two
Three`
fmt.Println(foo)

This bug is present in godoc and also at godoc.org despite the latter rendering code blocks quite differently.

Answers to the questions:

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version go1.7 darwin/amd64

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/frost/go"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
CC="clang"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/vd/dv4ywnzd0gq3gsv6_sfq9nv80000gn/T/go-build153742415=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"

What did you do?

Used a multi-line string declared with backticks in a code example for my
project frostedmd.

The string has meaningful indentation describing a code block in Markdown,
and the bug (or an identical bug) can be seen in action on Godog.org here:

https://godoc.org/github.com/biztos/frostedmd#ex-package

What did you expect to see?

The string correctly indented in the code block of the example documentation.

What did you see instead?

The string with leading whitespace stripped from indented lines, thus making
the example invalid.