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Removing non-break-spaces in JavaScript

rated 0 times [ 104] [ 6] / answers: 1 / hits: 24981 / 11 Years ago, wed, october 23, 2013, 12:00:00

I am having trouble removing spaces from a string. First I am converting the div to text(); to remove the tags (which works) and then I'm trying to remove the "&nbsp" part of the string, but it won't work. Any Idea what I'm doing wrong.

newStr = $('#myDiv').text();

newStr = newStr.replace(/&nbsp;/g, '');



$('#myText').val(newStr);





<html>

  <div id = "myDiv"><p>remove&nbsp;space</p></div>

  <input type = "text" id = "myText" />

</html>

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answered 11 Years ago shylaelisan · Accepted Answer

When you use the text function, you're not getting HTML, but text: the   entities have been changed to spaces.

So simply replace spaces:

var str =  a     b   , // bunch of NBSPs 

    newStr = str.replace(/s/g,'');

    

console.log(newStr)

If you want to replace only the spaces coming from   do the replacement before the conversion to text:

newStr = $($('#myDiv').html().replace(/&nbsp;/g,'')).text();