Removing html line breaks using Javascript

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I'm trying to grab an element's HTML using jQuery and then post it to the server. I successfully grabbed it, but I am not able to remove the white space between the tags and the line breaks that are rendered by default. The HTML code grabbed is shown below:

<table><tbody><tr><th></th><th>1</th><th>2</th><th>3</th><th>4</th><th>5</th><th>6</th><th>7</th></tr>
                <tr><th>2nd row</th><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

I would like to trim the spaces between the tags only. I've used this regular expression: str.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');. But that doesn't seem to work, any suggestions?

Paul Draper · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-22 04:20:42Z

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Currently, you are replacing all consecutive sequences of whitespace with a single space.

This is what you want:

str.replace(/>\s+</g, '><');

answered Dec 22, 2013 at 4:20

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Gowtham Over a year ago

First of all, thanks for your help. But, it doesn't work. i.sstatic.net/VfkXe.png

Gowtham Over a year ago

the string also contain some line breaks not only spaces.

Gowtham · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-07 14:25:11Z

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I need to add escape character(backslash - ) character at the end of each line to wrap the string.

answered Jan 7, 2014 at 14:25

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