Remove unnecessary whitespace from Jinja rendered template

Question

I\'m using curl to watch the output of my web app. When Flask and Jinja render templates, there\'s a lot of unnecessary white space in the output. It seems to

Answer 1

To collapse whitespace before and after a block:

{%- if form.message -%} //trims before
   {{ form.message }}
{%- endif -%} // trims after