Whitespace not being rendered

[drewwilson]

Any whitespace between tags is NOT being rendered with .html()

For example: Link HyperLink

The output of that when rendered with .html() is: LinkHyperLink

It removes the space in-between the 2 tags. This only happens when 2 tags are one after the other. To get around it i have to do the following to the html string: .replace('> <','>&nbsp;<');

[matthewmueller]

Hmm... try passing the ignoreWhitespace : false option into cheerio.load.

Example: var $ = cheerio.load('<ul id = "fruits">...</ul>', { ignoreWhitespace: false });

[drewwilson]

we tried that, but it doesnt work.

Drew Wilson

www.drewwilson.com

On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Matt Mueller wrote:

Hmm... try passing the ignoreWhitespace : false option into cheerio.load.

Example: var $ = cheerio.load('<ul id = "fruits">...</ul>', { ignoreWhitespace: false });

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[matthewmueller]

Okay hmm... yah that's a problem. I'll take a look at this over the weekend.

[drewwilson]

by the way, i'm using cheerio for my newly launched app: http://dialog.gs :D Much faster than JSDOM.
Drew Wilson

www.drewwilson.com

On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Matt Mueller wrote:

Okay hmm... yah that's a problem. I'll take a look at this over the weekend.

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[matthewmueller]

Oh the app seems pretty cool! Could I get an invite? ;-)

[matthewmueller]

Okay, I've had a chance to look at this. I've upgraded cheerio to use the latest version of htmlparser2, and that seemed to fix it:

var html = '<a href = "./haha.html">hi</a> <a href = "./blah.html">blah</a>';
$ = cheerio.load(html, { ignoreWhitespace : false });
console.log($.html()) // => <a href="./haha.html">hi</a> <a href="./blah.html">blah</a>

[matthewmueller]

Could you please pull down master and verify it on your end? I'll bump the version once I can confirm this has been resolved.

[drewwilson]

Hey! Got the new changes, thanks. However it doesn't work for me still.

var $ = cheerio.load(html,{ ignoreWhitespace : false });

Doing the above works, but the options are not actually set. So 'ignoreWhitespace' is still set to 'true' when i do:
console.log($);

For now i have to do this, and it all works as it should:

var $ = cheerio.load(html);
$.fn.options.ignoreWhitespace = false;

[matthewmueller]

weird. maybe I forgot to commit something.. let me check.

[matthewmueller]

This should work as expected in version 0.8.0. { ignoreWhitespace : false } is now the default again, so you should be able to remove that option altogether.