diff --git a/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.js b/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.js
index 15c03c684..35ae8f7cd 100644
--- a/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.js
+++ b/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.js
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ export const bindFunctions = function(element) {
   });
 };
 export const getDirection = function() {
-  return direction;
+  return direction.trim();
 };
 /**
  * Retrieval function for fetching the found nodes after parsing has completed.
diff --git a/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow.jison b/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow.jison
index 0082cb2d2..91a9b044b 100644
--- a/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow.jison
+++ b/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow.jison
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 "classDef"            return 'CLASSDEF';
 "class"               return 'CLASS';
 "click"               return 'CLICK';
-"graph"      {if(yy.lex.firstGraph()){this.begin("dir");console.log('First graph')}  return 'GRAPH';}
+"graph"      {if(yy.lex.firstGraph()){this.begin("dir");}  return 'GRAPH';}
 "subgraph"            return 'subgraph';
 "end"\b\s*            return 'end';
 <dir>\s*"LR"             {   this.popState();  return 'DIR'; }