Some visible whitespaces in browser are trimmed in the result

[dzcpy]

htmlToText.fromString('<br>　　123<br>'

The line above should return the result like '\n　　123\n' instead of '\n123\n' since '　' is a visible white space in browser.
I would suggest that it's better to provide an option to choose what characters should not be trimmed.

[KillyMXI]

Thanks for pointing this out.

Your example uses Ideographic Space (　). It is indeed preserved in browser.

I don't see a need for an option though. Since the goal of html-to-text is to approximate the browser behavior - we just have to make it behave with each whitespace character like a browser does.

I have to take a closer look into HTML spec, add extra tests, and work from there.

[KillyMXI]

I started to look into this issue and realized it will indeed require an option, with the default set true to HTML spec.
Have to meet conflicting demands.

[dzcpy]

Thanks very much for your reply.
Also, I found there are a lot of quirks too in the browser. For example:
<p>　　abc</p> is not trimmed, but
　　<p>abc</p> is trimmed. It's a bit wierd.

[KillyMXI]

Vivaldi (as well as any Chromium-based browsers, I suspect) shows the second example with Ideographic Spaces put on extra line.
This aligns well with what I know at this point: text node containing these two characters is rendered in a block context and gets it's own line. It is not removed as HTML whitespaces, just not visible. It can be revealed with mouse selection.

I think this will be handled well ("as in browser" that is) once I'm done with the refactoring.

[KillyMXI]

I've pushed the update that should cover this, among many other things.

[KillyMXI]

New version is now live in npm.