From 5f6314984683cd39bbcfadbfdd60410e4d8977fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Metropass <moho472@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:00:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added Space Removal for Paragraphs

---
 package.json                    | 1 +
 src/backend/utils/html/index.js | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7a13d20785..56d23cdffa 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@
     "body-parser": "1.19.0",
     "bull": "3.20.1",
     "bull-board": "1.3.1",
+    "clean-whitespace": "0.1.2",
     "connect-redis": "5.1.0",
     "cors": "2.8.5",
     "date-fns": "2.17.0",
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/html/index.js b/src/backend/utils/html/index.js
index 7bf07fe515..44bdd40f5d 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/html/index.js
+++ b/src/backend/utils/html/index.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ const fixIFrameWidth = require('./fix-iframe-width');
 const lazyLoad = require('./lazy-load');
 const syntaxHighlight = require('./syntax-highlight');
 const replaceCodeEntities = require('./replace-entities');
+const emptyParagraph = require('./remove-empty-paragraphs');
 const fixEmptyPre = require('./modify-pre');
 const toDOM = require('./dom');
 
@@ -42,6 +43,8 @@ module.exports = function process(html) {
   lazyLoad(dom);
   // Replace <code> elements with encoded entities to use characters
   replaceCodeEntities(dom);
+  // Removes spaces, tabs and any "clear" characters in a paragraph
+  emptyParagraph(dom);
 
   // Return the resulting HTML
   return dom.window.document.body.innerHTML;