removing spaces

[eveready]

I'm trying to remove the space between the buttons on the posting page (Quote-Modify-Delete), and I've come up with this...

<script>
var aTD = document.getElementsByTagName("TD");

for(a=0;a<aTD.length;a++){
if(pb_action=='display'){
if(aTD[a].width=="40%" && aTD[a].align=="right"){
var sp = new RegExp('&nb'+'sp;','gi')
aTD[a].innerHTML = aTD[a].innerHTML.replace(sp,'');
}
}
}
</script>

Doesn't work though and I'm wondering if you could tell me why.

[Wormopolis]

try using
aTD.innerHTML = aTD.innerHTML.replace(/\s/,'');

and move the if (pb_action=='display') to outside the loop... that way it doesnt run the loop UNLESS its on a page that is display.

[eveready]

<script>
var aTD = document.getElementsByTagName("TD");
if(pb_action=='display'){
for(a=0;a<aTD.length;a++){
if(aTD[a].width=="40%" && aTD[a].align=="right"){
aTD[a].innerHTML = aTD[a].innerHTML.replace(/\s/,'');
}}}
</script>

It's doing something.... it seems to move one of the buttons over about one pixel.

But it's not removing the spaces. Any other ideas?

[Wormopolis]

ugh.. Im dumb..

/\s/g

the g makes it find more then the first one.

[eveready]

Yeah, I tried that too, but it removes all of the buttons completely.

[Wormopolis]

alright then...

/>\s</g

[eveready]

Works, thanks.

If you get a minute can you explain to me the >\s< part? How does that equal a space?

[Wormopolis]

The > and < are the end pieces of the surrounding tags. when we removed ALL the spaces before, it made all the tags look like:
<ahref='/index.cgi?board=whatever'><imgsrc='imgsrc.jpg'border=0>

so in essence destroying the html.. I dont know why I thought that would work.

by having it look for spaces (\s) BEWTEEN the > and < ONLY then it was able to ignore all other spaces in the HTML.

[eveready]

Ah...got it. Thanks.

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