Trim to remove white space

Question

jQuery trim not working. I wrote the following command to remove white space. Whats wrong in it?

var str = $('input').val();

str = jquery.trim(str);
console.log(str);

Fiddle example.

Answer 1

jQuery.trim() capital Q?

or $.trim()

Edit (2021): This answer is 11 years old (2010). There are better solutions posted below.

Answer 2

No need for jQuery

JavaScript does have a native .trim() method.

var name = "    John Smith  ";
name = name.trim();

console.log(name); // "John Smith"

Example Here

String.prototype.trim()

The trim() method removes whitespace from both ends of a string. Whitespace in this context is all the whitespace characters (space, tab, no-break space, etc.) and all the line terminator characters (LF, CR, etc.).

Answer 3

or just use $.trim(str)

Answer 4

Why not try this?

html:

<p>
  a b c
</p>

js:

$("p").text().trim();

Answer 5

Try this

  $('input').val($('input').val().trim());