Give your html files a trim

A neat feature from DWMX

[le_gber]

Ever wonder how to save some bytes from your html pages? Make the files lighter? Smaller?

Using the search and replace tool you can easilly get rid of all the whitespace.

in the site view go to Edit >> Find and replace

in the box search for select source code and type a double space

in the replace with box type nothing

in the options select match case, deselect ignore whitespace differences, and select use regular expressions

and off you go. All the indentation will be removed and if you play a little with the end - delete keys you will soon have a very compact html file.

I saved over 30% for my test file >> it went from 11K to 8K (well 10.8K to 7.51K according to windows).

If anybody knows a fastest way, please let me know.

Leo

ps if you want to go back in code view to edit some code, all you have to do is go in design view hit ctrl+a, ctrl+x and ctrl+v it will restore the code with indentation.
ps2. make sure you test this on a test page before doing it for you whole site, you may have designed your pages in a way that you need the whitespaces

[ncw164x]

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Does hundreds of pages in seconds without you having to do any work what so ever

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[Paddy]

And for those of us using Macs, there is a freeware program called HTML-Optimizer, available in various OS flavors, including X, which appears to do the same thing as HTML Shrinker. Haven't tried it yet, but it gets five cows at Tucows. It gives you a list of options to check off before it does its optimization. :)

[asquithea]

I did this by hand on a large PHP search engine that generates long pages of dense markup. I quite literally cut 200K off the worst offenders (max search results selected). However, if you're serving pages using compression, it's doubtful it it makes an enormous difference to download time.