Please render Simple state in a simple manner

Question

As you can see in the following example (from plantuml site), `State2` can be rendered with a simple box. But right now it shows as a box with two partitions, one of which is empty. For large diagrams, this unnecessarily takes a lot of space.

Answer 1

You can use "hide empty description" command :

@startuml
hide empty description
[*] --> State1
State1 --> [*]
State1 : this is a string
State1 : this is another string

State1 -> State2
State2 --> [*]
@enduml

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