Is there anything in HTML/CSS that tells the browser to ignore whitespace completely?

So many times when you want to put, say, two images next to each other - you try desperately to keep the HTML readable, but the browser puts a space between them.

So instead of something like this:

<imc src="images/minithing.jpg" alt="my mini thing" />
<imc src="images/minithing.jpg" alt="my mini thing" />
<imc src="images/minithing.jpg" alt="my mini thing" />
<imc src="images/minithing.jpg" alt="my mini thing" />

you end up with this

<imc src="images/minithing.jpg" alt="my mini thing" /><imc src="images/minithing.jpg" alt="my mini thing" /><imc src="images/minithing.jpg" alt="my mini thing" /><imc src="images/minithing.jpg" alt="my mini thing" />

Which is just so horrible!