Remove all white-spaces in string with jQuery

Question

this drives me nuts - Im trying to remove all white-spaces in a string, and nothing seems to work. what am i doing wrong?

This is what im trying with at the moment:

$(".unfoldedlabel a").text().replace(/ /g,'');

HTML:

<span class="unfoldedlabel" colspan="6"><a>Accessories/Service & Support</a></span>

Tushar · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-18 03:16:47Z

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You're not updating the text in HTML. After removing the spaces, the innerText in DOM need to be updated.

Use .text(function):

$(".unfoldedlabel a").text(function (index, oldText) {
    return oldText.replace(/\s+/g, '');
});

$(".unfoldedlabel a").text(function(i, t) {
  return t.replace(/\s+/g, '');
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<span class="unfoldedlabel" colspan="6"><a>Accessories/Service & Support</a></span>

edited Nov 18, 2015 at 3:16

answered Nov 17, 2015 at 11:44

Tushar

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Andreas Over a year ago

I'm nitpicking here but to remove "all whitespaces" the regex should probably be /\s/g instead :)

Tushar Over a year ago

@Andreas Yes, used \s+ to replace all spaces

AlexBerd · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-17 14:42:20Z

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And another solution is:

var s=$(".unfoldedlabel a").text();
$(".unfoldedlabel a").text(s.replace(/ +?/g, ''));//or /\s+?/g

answered Nov 17, 2015 at 14:42

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Pankaj Bisht · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-17 11:51:54Z

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You can use this code -

$(function() {
  var changeText = $(".unfoldedlabel a").text().replace(/ /g,'');

  $(".unfoldedlabel a").text(changeText);
});

answered Nov 17, 2015 at 11:51

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