CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
This function is useful to reduce download time of your entire webpage. Client's will load pages noticably faster. Also very useful to compress a page before caching it for storage. Code is very useful in the fusebox 3 methodology, wrap this around your #fusebox.layout# variable to compress the html output. Code works on 3 levels of compression, and can easily be customized for more or different ways. Level 1: Replaces excessive spaces with no side effects. Level 2: (default) Removes more blank space but keeps html tags from wrapping into each other, so the code is still readable (maybe even more so) Level 3: Replaces all comments and any spaces possible, the side effect is space between html tags is removed, so alignment changes are possible.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfoutput>
<cfsavecontent variable="html">
<table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0">
<tr>
    <td colspan="2">
        <b>Table Title</b>
    </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>
        Column 1
    </td>
    <td>
        Column 2
    </td>
</tr>
</table>
</cfsavecontent>
<b>Before:</b><br>
  #HtmlCodeFormat(html)#
<p>
<b>After:</b><br>
 #HtmlCodeFormat(htmlCompressFormat(html, 2))#

</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Replaces a huge amount of unnecessary whitespace from your HTML code.
 * 
 * @param sInput      HTML you wish to compress. (Required)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Jordan Clark (JordanClark@Telus.net) 
 * @version 1, November 19, 2002 
 */
function HtmlCompressFormat(sInput)
{
   var level = 2;
   if( arrayLen( arguments ) GTE 2 AND isNumeric(arguments[2]))
   {
      level = arguments[2];
   }
   // just take off the useless stuff
   sInput = trim(sInput);
   switch(level)
   {
      case "3":
      {
         //   extra compression can screw up a few little pieces of HTML, doh         
         sInput = reReplace( sInput, "[[:space:]]{2,}", " ", "all" );
         sInput = replace( sInput, "> <", "><", "all" );
         sInput = reReplace( sInput, "<!--[^>]+>", "", "all" );
         break;
      }
      case "2":
      {
         sInput = reReplace( sInput, "[[:space:]]{2,}", chr( 13 ), "all" );
         break;
      }
      case "1":
      {
         // only compresses after a line break
         sInput = reReplace( sInput, "(" & chr( 10 ) & "|" & chr( 13 ) & ")+[[:space:]]{2,}", chr( 13 ), "all" );
         break;
      }
   }
   return sInput;
}