Replacing tab characters in JavaScript

Question

Please consider the following HTML

 element:


This is some  
example code which    
     contains tabs         


        

Answer 1

It removes line breaks, extra spaces and line breaks:

function removeNewlines(str) {
//remove line breaks from str
str = str.replace(/\s{2,}/g, ' ');
str = str.replace(/\t/g, ' ');
str = str.toString().trim().replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/g,"");
console.log(str);
}

Demo:

function removeNewlines(str) {
//remove line breaks from str
str = str.replace(/\s{2,}/g, ' ');
str = str.replace(/\t/g, ' ');
str = str.toString().trim().replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/g,"");
  console.log(str);
}

$('#acceptString').click(function() {
    var str = prompt('enter string','');
    if(str)
        removeNewlines(str)
});