Find and replace white spaces in html

Question

I'm trying to find and replace all white spaces in a html file. Here's my code so far:

html.replace(@ (?![^<]*>|[^<>]*</)@g,"&nbsp;")

But above expression throws error as not a valid expression. How do I make it work?

Answer 1

Regexes are delimited by /, not @.

html.replace(/ (?![^<]*>|[^<>]*<\/)/g,"&nbsp;")

Here's another regex that literally replaces every white space with a non-breaking space:

html.replace(/\s+/g, " ");