in reply to space before and after

Did you mean to keep the space before the <span> tag?

HTML collapses multiple spaces into one, so what's the point? It'll only serve to introduce errors.

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Re^2: space before and after
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 03, 2009 at 04:58 UTC
    Remove the spaces in front of tags and after the tags.
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      So the output is wrong, then. 

      s/\s+(?=<)//g;
s/(?<=>)\s+//g;

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      • Assumes no unescaped "<" and ">" in flow or other content.
      • Assumes no "<" and ">" in attribute values, comments or in CDATA sections.
      • Assumes no NET tags (a poorly supported SGML construct).
      • Disregards the fact that this changes the HTML to something that's not equivalent.
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        Please tell me how to remove the space in "<br/>" ahead and behind the text 
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Hi &lt;br/&gt; r u

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