About HTML Minify
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Love this all-encompassing plugin. We have an issue with HTML minification. In our templates, when we use a few spaces inside attributes, which we do for legible reading in the source code, we’d like it to be replaced by single spaces in the minified version in production. This is how various tools such as Gulp etc work. But we’re finding that html minify from Clearfy leaves some specific things alone and does *not* minify them. Why?
For example, take a look at the page source of the attached URL:
https://geislingen.estdocs.com/stories/heading-to-the-free-world/There’s no reason the line breaks here should be line breaks at all. They can easily become one space, which would make them a single long line of all HTML.
What am I missing? Welcome any pointers. Thanks!
The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]
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Why would it break HTML? There’s nothing in the spec that says removing a newline from a tag like this is invalid–
<a href='something.com/somepage/somefinalurl' target='_blank' data-somecustomvariable='some other value' >This could quite safely be made:
<a href='something.com/somepage/somefinalurl' target='_blank' data-somecustomvariable='some other value' >In other words: replace all individual occurrences of “white space” (a space or more, tabs, newline characters) with one space each. This is perfectly valid HTML.
Happy to be corrected. If clearfy cannot do this I might have to look for another plugin to do just this.
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