Whitespaces problem

[ayok]

Hi,

Now I'm working with Joomla! site with virtuemart shop engine, and my problem is I sometimes find an annoying whitespaces. These whitespaces create an empty space that destruct the layout. I've manage to remove it with jquery trim. However, it must also be done with PHP because the script seems to consider this as not empty, so the modules, which suppose to be hidden if it's empty, is just displaying empty space.

 

I've tried trim, but it's not working.. it's still showing empty string. Like the image bellow if I open the browser console (circled):

If i copy the whitespace from the console and paste it to notepad, it shows me empty space and some question marks (?).

 

Is there any advice how to get rid of this annoying problem?

 

Thanks,

ayok

[TimeBomb]

Oh my... abnormal whitespace. I despise it.

There are a lot of characters that it could be. The trim function does not remove everything.

 

The comments in the trim PHP manual entry do have lots of different options as to removing annoying whitespace.

I do suggest that you read them carefully and try some of the suggestions.