Question

I am processing various RSS news items.

In those items, some of them always have various white spaces (like tabs, redundant space, etc) in front within <p></p> or <div></div>.

How can I automatically remove those unnecessary white spaces in the beginning of a paragraph, using pure HTML or CSS?

Answer 1

Not possible. HTML nor CSS are not programming languages, as such, they do not contain the tools to preform string manipulation.

You could do it easily with javascript like so:

var str = "This is a      string with           multiple spaces";
str = str.replace(/ {2,}/g, " ");
document.write("<pre>" + str + "</pre>");

Will print

This is a string with multiple spaces

Consider this working example