how do I strip white space when grabbing text with jQuery?

Question

I\'m wanting to use jQuery to wrap a mailto: anchor around an email address, but it\'s also grabbing the whitepace that the CMS is generating.

Here\'s the HTML I hav

Answer 1

Javascript has built in trim:

str.trim()

It doesn't work in IE8. If you have to support older browsers, use Tuxmentat's or Paul's answer.