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Asked: 2026-05-20T14:03:26+00:00

I need replace spaces with &nbsp; inside HTML elements. Example: <table atrr=zxzx><tr> <td>adfa a

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I need replace spaces with &nbsp; inside HTML elements.
Example:

<table atrr="zxzx"><tr>
<td>adfa a   adfadfaf></td><td><br /> dfa  dfa</td>
</tr></table>

should become

<table atrr="zxzx"><tr>
<td>adfa&nbsp;a&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;adfadfaf></td><td><br />&nbsp;dfa&nbsp;&nbsp;dfa</td>
</tr></table>
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  1. Editorial Team

    use regex to catch data between tags

    (?:<\/?\w+)(?:\s+\w+(?:\s*=\s*(?:\".*?\"|'.*?'|[^'\">\s]+)?)+\s*|\s*)\/?>([^<]*)?

    then replace ' ' with '&nbsp;'

    also to catch before and after html :

    ^([^<>]*)<?

>([^<>]*)$

    Edit:
    here you go….

    <?php
$data="dasdad asd a  <table atrr=\"zxzx\"><tr><td>adfa a   adfadfaf></td><td><br /> dfa  dfa</td></tr></table>  asdasd s ";
$exp="/((?:<\\/?\\w+)(?:\\s+\\w+(?:\\s*=\\s*(?:\\\".*?\\\"|'.*?'|[^'\\\">\\s]+)?)+\\s*|\\s*)\\/?>)([^<]*)?/";

$ex1="/^([^<>]*)(<?)/i";
$ex2="/(>)([^<>]*)$/i";

$data = preg_replace_callback($exp, function ($matches) {
    return $matches[1] . str_replace(" ", "&nbsp;", $matches[2]);
}, $data);
$data = preg_replace_callback($ex1, function ($matches) {
    return str_replace(" ", "&nbsp;", $matches[1]) . $matches[2];
}, $data);
$data = preg_replace_callback($ex2, function ($matches) {
    return $matches[1] . str_replace(" ", "&nbsp;", $matches[2]);
}, $data);

echo $data;
?>

    it works… slightly modified but it would work without modifications (but i dont think youd understand the code 😉 )

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