Question

I am using this regular expression to remove white space and line breaks from a HTML document.

However, it doesn’t seem to handling line breaks very well.

preg_replace('/(?:(?<=\>)|(?<=\/\>))(\s+)(?=\<\/?)/', '', $HTML);

How can I improve the above?

I am only trying to remove spaces between beginning and end of HTML tags.

Answer 1

How about this regex? It’s not perfect (it only handles whitespace at the beginning and end of the line) but it works for me.

$html = preg_replace('/[\t\s\n]*(<.*>)[\t\s\n]*/', '$1', $html);