Remove Whitespaces from html sourcecode by php

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I have following of these html and i want to remove extra spaces and need result something like:

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Can anyone help me to solve this with the help of PHP and preg, str_replace etc

That moment when Markdown automatically corrects the extra whitespaces ini your question... — Sergi Juanola, Jan 30 '13 at 15:55
I edited your answer using `tidy` which seems to have obscured the question (but I didn't see any difference between the two blocks to begin with). So maybe your answer is `tidy`: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.tidy.php — Explosion Pills, Jan 30 '13 at 15:56
@ExplosionPills You modified the question the wrong way! You should have just put the html in code. The tidy result you could post in your answer! People are thinking that he is spamming or ironing, but he isn't. — falsarella, Jan 30 '13 at 16:00
@ExplosionPills Again, the revision 3 seems the correct one. — falsarella, Jan 30 '13 at 16:05

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 30 '13 at 16:03

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Remove whitespace [\n\t\r\ ] from the start of text after tag start:

$html=preg_replace('/>\s+/','>',$html);

Remove whitespace [\n\t\r\ ] from the end of text before a tag:

$html=preg_replace('/\s+</','<',$html);

answered Jan 30 '13 at 16:03

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That type of question will always end one way: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/1064325 – falsarella Jan 30 '13 at 16:11
It's just about whitespace @falsarella, regex is great for this. Of course you could use a built in parser to disassemble the html, trim the text and patch it back together but that would be an overkill just for this. – CSᵠ Jan 30 '13 at 16:18
And if you have something like this `' > < '`? Inspecting your answer, you can see a live sample. But, probably your answer will fit to the OP's needs! – falsarella Jan 30 '13 at 16:26

Remove Whitespaces from html sourcecode by php

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