Question

I am using a html minifier, which can be found here: HTML minify

The strange thing to me is that every tag is placed on a new line. Is this common behavior or am I doing something wrong. The output looks something like this:

Anyone know how I can fix this so that is just creates one line of code, or is has this was of minifying some advantages.

Answer 1

Checked the code?

// use newlines before 1st attribute in open tags (to limit line lengths)
        $this->_html = preg_replace('/(<[a-z\\-]+)\\s+([^>]+>)/i', "$1\n$2", $this->_html);

Long lines can be a bad bad thing – browsers might fill buffers or just drop stuff at the end of the line. So it looks like that Minify script has it hard coded in, with no options to change. So if you really want it all on one line, just customise your version to not do that replacement. Open Source win.