Same thing in Haml/TWIG when using if/for/macros/etc.

White space removal is really useful when using inline or inline-block positioning for horizontal layouts, i.e. this is not just cosmetic. See: http://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-between-inline-block-elements/, stmh's issue above is the same thing.

Whitespace removal won't work for me at all.

This MtHaml:

    %span.text-small><
      (
      = $no_reviews
      )

produces this HTML:

<span class="text-small">(
    16    )</span>

Please mark this a a bug.

PS Haml docs: http://haml.info/docs/yardoc/file.REFERENCE.html#whitespace_removal__and_

From your example, it works as documented: it removes whitespace just after <span class="text-small">, and just before </span>, but not in the content (which is what it's expected to do).

See the example from HAML/Ruby documentation:

%img
%pre><
  foo
  bar
%img

is compiled to:

<img /><pre>foo
bar</pre><img />

Note that you can make use of interpolations, for this use-case:

%span.text-small (#{$no_reviews})

(#{...} works like it works in Ruby, mostly like {$...} in PHP)

@arnaud-lb, i'm quoting the documentation:

> will remove all whitespace surrounding a tag, while < will remove all whitespace immediately within a tag.

Neither works for me. From my excerpt, you can only tell about the latter, but surrounding whitespace is also not removed.

Oh, i'm also inside a foreach, as the OP. Anyway, why is this not marked as a bug?

One difference, though, is that in HAML/Ruby, < also eats indentation, whereas in MtHaml it doesn't.

Marked as bug

One difference, though, is that in HAML/Ruby, < also eats indentation, whereas in MtHaml it doesn't.

The only reason to use whitespace removal for me is the inline-block grid technique. Whitespace adds to row width, ruining the grid. If MtHaml can't properly remove indentation, then whitespace removal is not working and thus useless.

I hacked in some changes in my fork that enable me to remove whitespace using <> where I need to. It ruins pretty printing because it's not possible to determine the right thing to do in some cases (macros/conditionals output in first and last node? memory is getting fuzzy...).  From: lolmausSent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:45 PMTo: arnaud-lb/MtHamlReply To: arnaud-lb/MtHamlCc: chrisrichardSubject: Re: [MtHaml] whitespace removal syntax not working with php-statements (#53)
One difference, though, is that in HAML/Ruby, < also eats indentation, whereas in MtHaml it doesn't.

The only reason to use whitespace removal for me is the inline-block grid technique. Whitespace adds to row width, ruining the grid. If MtHaml can't properly remove indentation, then whitespace removal is not working and thus useless.

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I've tried the > and < whitespace removal outside any PHP statements, and it won't work properly:

• > removes whitespace only after the element, while it should remove whitespace before and after the element.
• < removes whitespace only before the content of the element, while it should remove whitespace before, between and after the containing elements.

Putting this inside a in if (true) PHP statement makes it a bit worse. The < removes linebreaks but adds space characters.

@arnaud-lb, any progress on this one?

mervick/yii2-mthaml#3

Any update?

Bump, it would be nice to have this fixed.

Not being able to control the white-space causes major problems with text in HTML textarea form elements.