Is there a function to remove all white space/compress my code? I seem to be missing this feature and figure I am just overlooking it somewhere.

It may not satisfy your needs, but to remove all white space you could press CTRL+H to bring up the Find & Replace panel, then make sure that regular expression button is toggled (it’s labelled .*), then have the following in the input fields:

Find what: **\s** 
Replace with:

That is, an empty input replacing it. It performs a bit slowly on my machine, mind you.

Perfect! Thanks so much. Wish I could just make that a button, but this serves the purpose. It’s a little slow on the current file, but its 1400 lines, which won’t be the usual.

You can try the RemoveWhitespace plugin

is there anyway to control this removal process so that markup such as the following:

• SubVert Item 1
• SubVert Item 2
• SubVert Item 3

becomes:

• SubVert Item 1
• SubVert Item 2
• SubVert Item 3

instead of:

• SubVertItem1
• SubVertItem2
• SubVertItem3

notice the difference in the

[quote=“capnhud”]is there anyway to control this removal process so that markup such as the following:

• SubVert Item 1
• SubVert Item 2
• SubVert Item 3

becomes:

• SubVert Item 1
• SubVert Item 2
• SubVert Item 3

instead of:

• SubVertItem1
• SubVertItem2
• SubVertItem3

notice the difference in the [/quote]

remove new lines only \n

That works perfectly. Thanks EJ12N

just one more question concerning removing white space. I can remove newlines which is good, but how would you trim the whitespace that is between subsequent text and tags.
ex:

• SubVert Item 1
• SubVert Item 2
• SubVert Item 3

becomes:

• SubVert Item 1
• SubVert Item 2
• SubVert Item 3

Try Ctrl+J (join lines)

I tried that, but that has not affect on the extra spaces that are present once you remove the new lines.

Find what: \s*(<>])\s*|\s*\n\s+ Replace with: \1 (or) Replace with: $1This removes all whitespace surrounding the < and > characters, as well as any line breaks and leading and trailing whitespace on lines, and as far as I understand it is exactly what you wanted.

Edit: actually, you should use \s*(<>])\s* as the pattern. It should work the same but if you happen to have a tag that spans multiple lines, it will not ruin it. For maximum effect, you can use two find&replaces: with one replace \s*(<>])\s* by $1, and with the other replace \s+ by a single space.

I understand what you are saying on the first part of this, but you kinda lost me when you say at the end of the edit

Are you indicate do a

Find what: \s(+space)
Replace with: $1

for maximum effect?

What I meant was that in the second search you should use ‘\s+’, without the quotation marks, as the pattern, and the replacement should be just a single space character that you use between words. That way every run of consecutive whitespace characters (spaces, line breaks, tabs and whatnot) will be merged into a single space, which is what Web browsers do anyway.

On the other hand, I have just realized that if you have something like<a href="#">two</a> <a href="#">examples</a>then the first search (the \s*(<>])\s* one) will remove the space between the two anchor elements. I am afraid there is no easy way to avoid this, unless you are willing to write a long regular expression listing all block-level and inline-level HTML elements and treating them differently, and even then it would probably possible to trick it into leaving an unneeded space or deleting a needed one.

[quote]On the other hand, I have just realized that if you have something like

<a href="#">two</a> <a href="#">examples</a>

then the first search (the \s*(<>])\s* one) will remove the space between the two anchor elements. [/quote]

This solution does exactly what I was looking for.

Also check the following Sublime setting:

"trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true

find:
(>)\n?\s*(\w\s]*)\s(<)
replace with:
\1\2\3

• SubVert Item 1
• SubVert Item 2
• SubVert Item 3

becomes:

• SubVert Item 1
• SubVert Item 2
• SubVert Item 3

hopefully it’s what you want.