Remove leading and trailing white space using jquery

Question

How do i remove leading and trailing white space using jquery for the text coming from backend(ATG BCC) in p tag or span tag?

<div class="specific-col type-specific col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3">
  <span class="js-truncate-text" data-max="54">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Processor Information&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
</div>

Possible duplicate of [Remove ALL white spaces from text](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6623231/remove-all-white-spaces-from-text) — AmiNadimi, Jan 05 '17 at 07:17
Possible duplicate of [Trim &nbsp values in javascript](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37387414/trim-nbsp-values-in-javascript) — Sebastian Simon, Jan 05 '17 at 07:19
It is better if you post your complete requirement why need something to be done, or at least what you have tried as of now. — Akhil Arjun, Jan 05 '17 at 07:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 05 '17 at 07:20

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try using jquery $.trim() function as below:

var code = $(".js-truncate-text").text();
var a = $.trim(code);
alert(a);

See fiddle here https://jsfiddle.net/x06nuzwv/1/

answered Jan 05 '17 at 07:20

Hikmat Sijapati

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