If the requirement is reducing the size of the html response, modern browsers really don't need this extra step. However I think you need to do this from the server, rather than worrying about it in the source code.

mod_substitute will replace line breaks with spaces, if you configure it properly. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_substitute.html

also take a look at the mod_deflate for apache, this will compress the page before being sent to the client, if you're using apache http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_deflate.html

astroanu said:

If the requirement is reducing the size of the html response, modern browsers really don't need this extra step. However I think you need to do this from the server, rather than worrying about it in the source code.

mod_substitute will replace line breaks with spaces, if you configure it properly. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_substitute.html

also take a look at the mod_deflate for apache, this will compress the page before being sent to the client, if you're using apache http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_deflate.html

Ah that's nice to know that those exist. While it would probably work fine on my local environment, I don't think I have to ability to adjust those settings on my shared host where I'm uploading this application to. So it's good to know that that's also a way to do it. Compressing the page in general probably fixes this problem.

But I do wonder why various {{}} under each other does generate new lines in the source rather than just parsing them under each other.

But well thank you for the explenation!