diff --git a/flask_minify/about.py b/flask_minify/about.py
index cb85a36..955d055 100644
--- a/flask_minify/about.py
+++ b/flask_minify/about.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.41"
+__version__ = "0.42"
 __doc__ = "Flask extension to minify html, css, js and less."
 __license__ = "MIT"
 __author__ = "Mohamed Feddad"
diff --git a/flask_minify/parsers.py b/flask_minify/parsers.py
index a91600e..f0ef5f7 100644
--- a/flask_minify/parsers.py
+++ b/flask_minify/parsers.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ class Html(ParserMixin):
     runtime_options = _o = {
         "remove_comments": True,
         "remove_optional_attribute_quotes": False,
+        "remove_empty_space": True,
         "only_html_content": False,
         "script_types": [],
         "minify_inline": _default_tags,
diff --git a/tests/constants.py b/tests/constants.py
index 7bfb84f..fe9321d 100644
--- a/tests/constants.py
+++ b/tests/constants.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
     ]
 )
 
-MINIFED_HTML = b"<html> <body> <h1> HTML </h1> </body> </html>"
+MINIFED_HTML = b"<html><body><h1> HTML </h1></body></html>"
 
 MINIFIED_JS = b'<script>["J","S"].reduce(function(a,r){return a+r})</script>'
 
@@ -107,13 +107,13 @@
 MINIFED_HTML_EMBEDDED_TAGS = bytes(
     "".join(
         [
-            "<html> ",
+            "<html>",
             MINIFIED_JS.decode("utf-8"),
-            ' <script type="text/script" src="testing/88.js"></script> ',
+            '<script type="text/script" src="testing/88.js"></script>',
             MINIFED_LESS.decode("utf-8"),
-            ' <script type="application/script" src="testing/1.js"></script> ',
+            '<script type="application/script" src="testing/1.js"></script>',
             MINIFIED_JS.decode("utf-8"),
-            ' <script src="testing/nested/2.js"></script> </html>',
+            '<script src="testing/nested/2.js"></script></html>',
         ]
     ).encode("utf-8")
 )
