diff --git a/runestone/assess/js/fitb.js b/runestone/assess/js/fitb.js
index 192f81f03..41640494a 100644
--- a/runestone/assess/js/fitb.js
+++ b/runestone/assess/js/fitb.js
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ FITB.prototype.checkFITBStorage = function () {
     // Starts chain of functions which ends with feedBack() displaying feedback to user
     this.evaluateAnswers();
     this.renderFITBFeedback();
-    var answerInfo = "answer:" + this.given_arr + ":" + (this.isCorrect ? "correct" : "no");
+    var answerInfo = "answer:" + this.given_arr + ":" + (this.correct ? "correct" : "no");
     this.logBookEvent({"event": "fillb", "act": answerInfo, "div_id": this.divid});
     this.enableCompareButton.disabled = false;
 };
diff --git a/runestone/parsons/js/parsons.js b/runestone/parsons/js/parsons.js
index 0dbf640b9..42a82764d 100644
--- a/runestone/parsons/js/parsons.js
+++ b/runestone/parsons/js/parsons.js
@@ -799,7 +799,8 @@
     if (codestring) {
       // Consecutive lines to be dragged as a single block of code have strings "\\n" to
       // represent newlines => replace them with actual new line characters "\n"
-      this.code = codestring.replace(/#distractor\s*$/, "").replace(trimRegexp, "$1").replace(/\\n/g, "\n");
+      //codestring = codestring.replace(/\\n\s+/g,"\\n"); // remove leading spaced if more than one line in a code block - added in below to not change the codestring
+      this.code = codestring.replace(/#distractor\s*$/, "").replace(trimRegexp, "$1").replace(/\\n\s+/g,"\\n").replace(/\\n+/g,"\n");
       this.indent = codestring.length - codestring.replace(/^\s+/, "").length;
     }
   };