Removing whitespace between HTML elements when using line breaks

Answer 1

Is there anything I can do other than break in the middle of the tags rather than between them?

Not really. Since <img>s are inline elements, spaces between these elements are considered by the HTML renderer as true spaces in text – redundant spaces (and line breaks) will be truncated but single spaces will be inserted into the character data of the text element.

Positioning the <mg> tags absolutely can prevent this but I'd advise against this since this would mean positioning each of the images manually to some pixel measure which can be a lot of work.

Answer 2

You could use comments.

 <img src="..." alt="..."><!--
 --><img src="..." alt="..."><!--
 --><img src="..." alt="..."><!--
 --><img src="..." alt="...">

I'd worry about the semantics of having a series of images side by side though.

Answer 3

You could use CSS. Setting display:block, or float:left on the images will let you have define your own spacing and format the HTML however you want but will affect the layout in ways that might or might not be appropriate.

Otherwise you are dealing with inline content so the HTML formatting is important - as the images will effectively act like words.

Answer 4

You have two options without doing approximate stuff with CSS. The first option is to use javascript to remove whitespace-only children from tags. A nicer option though is to use the fact that whitespace can exist inside tags without it having a meaning. Like so:

<div id="[divContainer_Id]"
    ><img src="[image1_url]" alt="img1"
    /><img src="[image2_url]" alt="img2"
    /><img src="[image3_url]" alt="img3"
    /><img src="[image4_url]" alt="img4"
    /><img src="[image5_url]" alt="img5"
    /><img src="[image6_url]" alt="img6"
/></div>

Answer 5

Semantically speaking, wouldn't it be best to use an ordered or unordered list and then style it appropriately using CSS?

<ul id="[UL_ID]">
    <li><img src="[image1_url]" alt="img1" /></li>
    <li><img src="[image2_url]" alt="img2" /></li>
    <li><img src="[image3_url]" alt="img3" /></li>
    <li><img src="[image4_url]" alt="img4" /></li>
    <li><img src="[image5_url]" alt="img5" /></li>
    <li><img src="[image6_url]" alt="img6" /></li>
</ul>

Using CSS, you'll be able to style this whatever way you want and remove the whitespace imbetween the books.