How can I remove extra white space in a string in JavaScript?

Question

How can I remove extra white space (i.e. more than one white space character in a row) from text in JavaScript?

E.g

match    the start using.
         


        

Answer 1

See string.replace on MDN

You can do something like this:

var string = "Multiple  spaces between words";
string = string.replace(/\s+/,' ', g);