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Is this expected --collapse-inline-tag-whitespace behavior? #179

@juj

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@juj

What happened?

Take the following test.html:

<html><body>
The quick brown fox <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump'>jumps</a> over the lazy dog
</body></html>

Run it through

html-minifier-terser --collapse-whitespace --collapse-inline-tag-whitespace test.html

This will result in:

<html><body>The quick brown fox<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump">jumps</a>over the lazy dog</body></html>

When this page is rendered by the browser, the result is that the words foxjumpsover are joined together to become unreadable.

Is that intentional for the --collapse-inline-tag-whitespace pass? Or somehow an accident, and this pass should only apply to other kinds of elements?

I am asking since the above transform makes this change seem like a fundamentally unsafe optimization? In another ticket, users are pondering if that is a bug.

If this is intentional, it may be worthwhile to add a comment in the docs of the pass that this optimization can have undesirable results?

Version

7.2.0

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