Remove whitespace and line breaks between HTML elements using jQuery

Using jQuery, I'd like to remove the whitespace and line breaks between HTML tags. var widgetHTML = ' <div id="widget"> <h2>Widget</h2><p>Hi.</p> </div>'; Should be: alert(widgetHTML); // <div id="widget"><h2>Widget</h2><p>Hi.</p></div> I think the pattern I will need is: >[\s]*< Can this be accomplished without using regex?

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