Online PHP editor | output for qFbdS

<?php $html = "<div> Hello World </div>"; $doc = new DOMDocument(); $doc->loadHTML($html, LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED | LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD); $xpath = new DOMXPath($doc); // find within a that has text content $breaks = $xpath->query("//p[normalize-space()!='']/br"); // and remove them foreach ($breaks as $br) { $br->parentNode->removeChild($br); } echo $doc->saveHTML(); $doc->loadHTML($html, LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED | LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD); $xpath = new DOMXPath($doc); // find within a that has text content $breaks = $xpath->query("//p[text()!='']/br"); // and remove them foreach ($breaks as $br) { $br->parentNode->removeChild($br); } echo $doc->saveHTML();