gulp-remove-empty-lines-html

A Gulp plugin that removes empty lines from HTML files and optionally removes HTML comments. It preserves the original formatting of the HTML content.

Module Support

This package supports both CommonJS (require) and ESM (import) usage. Node.js >=22 is required.

Installation

``bash
npm install gulp-remove-empty-lines-html --save-dev
`

Usage

$3

`javascript
const { src, dest } = require('gulp');
const { removeEmptyLinesHtml } = require('gulp-remove-empty-lines-html');

gulp.task('clean-html', () => {
return gulp.src('./src/*/.html')
.pipe(removeEmptyLinesHtml())
.pipe(gulp.dest('./dist'));
});
`

$3

`javascript
import { src, dest } from 'gulp';
import removeEmptyLinesHtml from 'gulp-remove-empty-lines-html';

export function cleanHtml() {
return src('./src/*/.html')
.pipe(removeEmptyLinesHtml())
.pipe(dest('./dist'));
}
`

Options

removeComments
Default: false
Type: boolean
Description: Remove all HTML comments from files.

Features

- Removes empty lines and lines containing only whitespace
- Optionally removes HTML comments (when removeComments is true)
- Preserves original HTML formatting and indentation
- Only processes HTML files (.html extension)

Requirements

- Node.js >=22

Example

Input:
`html













Hello World

This is a test


`

Output (default):
`html











Hello World

This is a test

`

Output (with removeComments: true):
`html










Hello World

This is a test

``

License

MIT