Convert html node to one line string(minify)

Question

I have a dom node in variable and i want to remove all enter/line break, tabs between the html tags. Basically i want to minify it without using external library. How can i do it.

var target = document.getElementById('myid');
var wrap = document.createElement('div');
wrap.appendChild(target.cloneNode(true));

wrap contains the node..

Answer 1

Not elegant, but should work

target.innerHTML = target.innerHTML.replace(/\n|\t/g, ' ');

Answer 2

You could replace the line breaks with an empty string target.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm,"");