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  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
  
  <html>
      <head>
          <title>Trim Example</title>
          <script type="text/javascript">
                  String.prototype.trim = function () {
                      var reExtraSpace = /^\s+(.*?)\s+/;
                      return this.replace(reExtraSpace, "$1");
                  };
  
                  
                  function showText() {
                      var oInput1 = document.getElementById("txt1");
                      var oInput2 = document.getElementById("txt2");
                      oInput2.value = oInput1.value.trim();
                  }
          </script>
      </head>
      <body>
          <p>Enter some text containing leading and trailing spaces below and click the button<br />
          <textarea rows="10" cols="50" id="txt1"></textarea><br />
          <input type="button" value="Trim" onclick="showText()" /></p>
          <p>Trimmed Text:<br />
          <textarea rows="10" cols="50" id="txt2"></textarea></p>
          
      </body>
  </html>
  


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