From 93d4f7e23f91ebd072b5dd2889cd9f784139d4f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Ginn <enom.infini@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 07:17:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] added htmlmin:remove comment chunks with passing tests

---
 .gitignore          | 17 +++++++++--------
 src/htmlminifier.js |  4 ++++
 test.js             |  3 ++-
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5a30657a..cacee493 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-*.sublime-project
-*.sublime-workspace
-.DS_Store
-/.jekyll-metadata
-/_site/
-/benchmarks/generated
-/node_modules/
-/npm-debug.log
+*.sublime-project
+*.sublime-workspace
+.DS_Store
+/.jekyll-metadata
+/_site/
+/benchmarks/generated
+/node_modules/
+/npm-debug.log
+/nbproject/
diff --git a/src/htmlminifier.js b/src/htmlminifier.js
index 2d51044d..2afa7506 100644
--- a/src/htmlminifier.js
+++ b/src/htmlminifier.js
@@ -703,6 +703,10 @@ function minify(value, options, partialMarkup) {
     return token;
   });
 
+  // Remove specific comment chunks. Usefull to delete markup that isn't wanted
+  // in dist(ex: browsersync or livereload)
+  value = value.replace(/<!-- htmlmin:remove -->[\s\S]*?<!-- htmlmin:remove -->/g, '');
+
   var customFragments = (options.ignoreCustomFragments || [
     /<%[\s\S]*?%>/,
     /<\?[\s\S]*?\?>/
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index e7d5e52c..a64e2aa2 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ testrunner.run({
   code: './src/htmlminifier.js',
   tests: [
     './tests/lint.js',
-    './tests/minifier.js'
+    './tests/minifier.js',
+    './tests/remove.js'
   ],
   maxBlockDuration: 5000
 }, function(err, report) {

From 9be8bc9697a25f79c888d1c05ba1f7d35136696b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Ginn <enom.infini@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 07:18:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] added test file

---
 tests/remove.js | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tests/remove.js

diff --git a/tests/remove.js b/tests/remove.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d58e500d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/remove.js
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/* global minify */
+'use strict';
+
+if (typeof minify === 'undefined') {
+  self.minify = require('html-minifier').minify;
+}
+
+var input, output;
+
+test('removing comment chunks', function () {
+  input = '<!-- htmlmin:remove --><!-- htmlmin:remove -->';
+  equal(minify(input), '');
+
+  input = '<!-- htmlmin:remove -->FOOBAR<!-- htmlmin:remove -->';
+  equal(minify(input), '');
+
+  input = '' +
+          '<div class="wrapper">\n' +
+          '  <p> ignored </p>\n' +
+          '  <!-- htmlmin:remove -->\n' +
+          '    <div class="removed" style="color: red">\n' +
+          '      removed <span> <input disabled/> chunk </span>\n' +
+          '    </div>\n' +
+          '  <!-- htmlmin:remove -->\n' +
+          '</div>';
+  output = '' +
+          '<div class="wrapper">\n' +
+          '  <p> ignored </p>\n' +
+          // Note there's two spaces that linger before our <!-- htmlmin:remove -->
+          '  \n' +
+          '</div>';
+
+  equal(minify(input), output);
+});