How to do Trim operation to remove space character in a text field in JavaScript?

Question

Google search for "Javascript trim" gives me 330,000 results in 0.16 seconds. Was that too long a wait for you? — Cerebrus, Feb 02 '09 at 09:22

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

2

A total dupe of this question:

What is the best way to trim() in javascript

Unless you didn't actually mean trim of course and in fact wanted all the spaces replaced ? In which case you just want:

var myString = "foo bar ddd";
myString = myString.replace(/ /g, "");

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

Community

1
1

answered Feb 02 '09 at 09:09

andynormancx

13,421
6
36
52

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '09 at 09:59

2

in case you did mean Trim:

x.replace(/^\s*|\s*$/g,'');

answered Feb 02 '09 at 09:59

annakata

74,572
17
113
180

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 18 '12 at 08:09

Try this in FF and Chrome

var myString = "                  some text                  ";

alert(myString.trim());

In IE first use this and call like the example above.

// Adding trim function to String object
if(typeof String.prototype.trim !== 'function') {
  String.prototype.trim = function() {
    return this.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');
  }
}

from here http://goo.gl/L802W

How to do Trim operation to remove space character in a text field in JavaScript?

3 Answers3