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I have an html file I load through DOMDocument in which I do some DOM manipulations the output the html with saveHTML.
The problem is that the white spaces after the input tags are removed, here is the HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.css">
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
window.jQuery || document.write(unescape('%3cscript src="/script/jquery.min.js"%3e%3c/script%3e'));
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<div>
<form method="post" action="/register/">
<label>First name: <input type="text" name="firstname"></label>
<label>Last name: <input type="text" name="lastname"></label>
<label>Date of birth: <input type="date" name="dateofbirth"></label>
<label>Address: <input type="text" name="address"></label>
<label>Phone number: <input type="text" name="phonenumber"></label>
<label>Sex: <input type="text" name="sex"></label>
<label>Email address: <input type="email" name="email"></label>
<label>Account password: <input type="password" name="password"></label>
<input id="register-button" type="submit" value="Register">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">
<input type="button" value="Cancel">
</form>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
PHP
$template_file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/application/template/template.html";
$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
$doc->loadHTMLFile($template_file);
/* dom manipulation, importing and appending nodes from other documents etc */
echo $doc->saveHTML();
It striped the whitespaces after other tags I tried(<br>, <hr>) except tags in the <head>.
I tried setting formatOutput to true but that only kept the spaces before a closing tag.
Is there a way to make DOMDocument preserve the white spaces after my <input>s?
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I know this is an old issue, and I was looking for the same thing when I came across this https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50278
In the notes it says to pass LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD as an option like this:
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTMLFile($file, LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD);
echo $doc->saveHTML();
This will keep the white space.
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