You can also use the tidy extension. http://pecl.php.net/package-info.php?package=tidy
John On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 20:23, Chris W. Parker wrote: > Justin Hendrickson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Friday, December 05, 2003 5:51 AM said: > > > Does anyone have an eloquent way to strip redundant whitespace without > > harming whitespace inside <pre>, <textarea> or <script> tags? I'd like > > to post-filter my HTML before returning it to the client and I'm not > > all that great with regular expressions. > > If it's just white space on the ends of the text you can use trim(). As > for a regular expression... > > /\s{2,}|\t/ / > > Will replace 2 or more whitespace characters (tab, space) with just one > space as well as replacing one tab character \t with one space. That > works in Perl (me thinks), but you'll have to fenagle it to work with > ereg_replace() in PHP. > > Note, thiw will also rip through <pre>, <textarea>, and any other tag. > It will apply to the entire string you supply it with. Unless you have > gobs of white space in your HTML there's really no point in getting rid > of it since all browsers will only display one space even if they > encounter multiple spaces. For example: > > HTML: > > This is my HTML. > > Will display as... > > This is my HTML. > > ...in any browser. > > > Chris. > > p.s. My regex is fairly weak so there could very well be a better one > for this. > -- > Don't like reformatting your Outlook replies? Now there's relief! > http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ -- -=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=- John Coggeshall http://www.coggeshall.org/ The PHP Developer's Handbook http://www.php-handbook.com/ -=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
