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Prabath Yapa
Prabath Yapa

Reputation: 1229

Replace multiple whitespaces inside HTML elements with  

I have large amounts of html similar to 

<div>some text</div>

with multiple whitespaces, which I would like to replace with

<div>some&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;text</div>

Is there a way to do this an HTML editor like notepad++/dreamweaver? My problem is isolating only the whitespaces trailing/following text.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2144

Answers (3)

PCoelho
PCoelho

Reputation: 8010

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
        $("#theDiv").text( $("#theDiv").html().replace(/\s/g, "&nbsp;") );
    });
</script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="theDiv">something in here</div>
</body>
</html>

Like this?

Upvotes: 0

ShankarSangoli
ShankarSangoli

Reputation: 69915

If you are looking for using any editor and modify your HTML then you can use replace all feature of notepad++.

The short cut to open replace all dialog box is Ctrl +H. In this dialog box you should enter the string to find and string to replace with and then click on replace.

I hope this makes sense to you. You don't need javascript to do this.

Upvotes: 0

dgmdan
dgmdan

Reputation: 415

As the commenter mentioned, it should be &nbsp; .

You should be able to do a simple find and replace, replacing space with &nbsp;. Notepad++ definitely has this feature.

One thing to realize is that nbsp stands for non-breaking space, or put another way, a space that will never allow a line break. If you have a large block of text with all nbsp's, it will all appear on one line and may require horizontal scrolling to read.

Upvotes: 1

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