how do I strip white space when grabbing text with jQuery?

Question

I\'m wanting to use jQuery to wrap a mailto: anchor around an email address, but it\'s also grabbing the whitepace that the CMS is generating.

Here\'s the HTML I hav

Answer 1

Actually, jQuery has a built in trim function:

 var emailAdd = jQuery.trim($(this).text());

See here for details.

Answer 2

Javascript has built in trim:

str.trim()

It doesn't work in IE8. If you have to support older browsers, use Tuxmentat's or Paul's answer.

Answer 3

Use the replace function in js:

var emailAdd = $(this).text().replace(/ /g,'');

That will remove all the spaces

If you want to remove the leading and trailing whitespace only, use the jQuery $.trim method :

var emailAdd = $.trim($(this).text());

Answer 4

str=str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,'');