How to remove extra white spaces using javascript or jquery?

Question

I got HTML element contains this:

    
  P6C245RO 
         


        

Answer 1

You can remove all instances of congruent whitespace and newlines like so

// Note: console.log() requires Firebug

var str = '    this  is \n    some text \r don\'t \t you    know?   ';
console.log( str );

str = str.replace( /[\s\n\r]+/g, ' ' );
console.log( str );

Then to clean it up and apply it to your jQuery

$.trim( $element.text().replace( /[\s\n\r]+/g, ' ' ) )