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Question

Is there a way to force the HTML cleaner to preserve the implication spaces that are normally visible in rendered HTML?

For example, you usually expect a space between Fooand Barin the following cases:

Foo<br/>Bar

Example 1

<div>Foo</div><div>Bar</div>

Example 2

Answer 1

I have a cruel plan - replace any tag that closes the ">" with a space, and remove the double spaces

<?php
$text = '<div>test</div><div>me</div>';

$text = preg_replace('/(<\/[a-z]+>)/', '$1 ', $text);
$text = trim(preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', strip_tags($text)));

var_dump($text);

Returns

string(7) "test me"

Answer 2

It seems that HTMLPurifier does not remove spaces, it removes tags together because it does not recognize them (which is strange).

Concerning Foo<br/>Bar

• Error Line 1, Column 3: Unrecognized <br /> tag removed

Concerning <div>Foo</div><div>Bar</div>

• Error Line 1, Column 0: Unrecognized <div> tag removed
• Error Line 1, Column 8: Unrecognized </div> tag removed
• Error Line 1, Column 14: Unrecognized <div> tag removed
• Error Line 1, Column 22: Unrecognized </div> tag removed

This can be seen by enabling CollectErrors in Live Demo.

, div br: http://htmlpurifier.org/live/configdoc/plain.html#HTML.AllowedElements

Live Demo: