Cleaning 'messy' markup rendered by ASP.NET

Question

Ive noticed when looking at the source of a page generated in ASP.NET, the actual markup is very messy - sort of a half-assed tabbed affair with bundles of whitespace thrown in (see pic).

Can anyone suggest a technique to remove/strip this whitespace?

Answer 1

Here is a good article on how to override the page render method:

http://madskristensen.net/post/Remove-whitespace-from-your-ASPNET-page.aspx

Answer 2

At the risk of being voted down, why does it matter?

Answer 3

You can do it without incurring any runtime cost