Trimming Whitespace From Html Content?

I have a CRUD maintenance screen with a custom rich text editor control (FCKEditor actually) and the program extracts the formatted text as HTML from the control for saving to the

Solution 1:

/<p>(?:<br\s*\/>|&[#\w]{2,6};|[\s\n\r])*?<\/p>/g

That should match all paragraphs that don't contain any "meaningful text".

It's probably best to do it on the server-side though.