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Spaceless ViewHelper <f:spaceless>
Space Removal ViewHelper
Removes redundant spaces between HTML tags while preserving the whitespace that may be inside HTML tags. Trims the final result before output.
Heavily inspired by Twig's corresponding node type.
Usage of f:spaceless
<f:spaceless>
<div>
<div>
<div>text
text</div>
</div>
</div>
</f:spaceless>
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Output:
<div><div><div>text
text</div></div></div>
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Go to the source code of this ViewHelper: SpacelessViewHelper.php (GitHub).