diff --git a/.changeset/nice-gifts-sparkle.md b/.changeset/nice-gifts-sparkle.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7b1f609cc31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/nice-gifts-sparkle.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@graphql-codegen/visitor-plugin-common': major
+---
+
+Add `stripIgnoredCharacters` option
diff --git a/packages/plugins/other/visitor-plugin-common/src/client-side-base-visitor.ts b/packages/plugins/other/visitor-plugin-common/src/client-side-base-visitor.ts
index 2fcadbfbca8..18e7cddea0a 100644
--- a/packages/plugins/other/visitor-plugin-common/src/client-side-base-visitor.ts
+++ b/packages/plugins/other/visitor-plugin-common/src/client-side-base-visitor.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
   FragmentSpreadNode,
   GraphQLSchema,
   Kind,
+  stripIgnoredCharacters,
 } from 'graphql';
 import { DepGraph } from 'dependency-graph';
 import gqlTag from 'graphql-tag';
@@ -208,6 +209,11 @@ export interface RawClientSideBasePluginConfig extends RawConfig {
    * @description If set to true, it will enable support for parsing variables on fragments.
    */
   experimentalFragmentVariables?: boolean;
+  /**
+   * @default false
+   * @description If set to true, any extraneous whitespace characters, etc. in the strings will be removed — using `graphql-js`'s `stripIgnoredCharacters` function. Has no effect if `documentMode` is set to `documentNode`.
+   */
+  stripIgnoredCharacters?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface ClientSideBasePluginConfig extends ParsedConfig {
@@ -228,6 +234,7 @@ export interface ClientSideBasePluginConfig extends ParsedConfig {
   pureMagicComment?: boolean;
   optimizeDocumentNode: boolean;
   experimentalFragmentVariables?: boolean;
+  stripIgnoredCharacters?: boolean;
 }
 
 export class ClientSideBaseVisitor<
@@ -269,6 +276,7 @@ export class ClientSideBaseVisitor<
       importDocumentNodeExternallyFrom: getConfigValue(rawConfig.importDocumentNodeExternallyFrom, ''),
       pureMagicComment: getConfigValue(rawConfig.pureMagicComment, false),
       experimentalFragmentVariables: getConfigValue(rawConfig.experimentalFragmentVariables, false),
+      stripIgnoredCharacters: getConfigValue(rawConfig.stripIgnoredCharacters, false),
       ...additionalConfig,
     } as any);
 
@@ -381,12 +389,17 @@ export class ClientSideBaseVisitor<
       return JSON.stringify(gqlObj);
     }
     if (this.config.documentMode === DocumentMode.string) {
-      return '`' + doc + '`';
+      return '`' + (this.config.stripIgnoredCharacters ? stripIgnoredCharacters(doc) : doc) + '`';
     }
 
     const gqlImport = this._parseImport(this.config.gqlImport || 'graphql-tag');
 
-    return (gqlImport.propName || 'gql') + '`' + doc + '`';
+    return (
+      (gqlImport.propName || 'gql') +
+      '`' +
+      (this.config.stripIgnoredCharacters ? stripIgnoredCharacters(doc) : doc) +
+      '`'
+    );
   }
 
   protected _generateFragment(fragmentDocument: FragmentDefinitionNode): string | void {
diff --git a/packages/plugins/typescript/operations/tests/ts-documents.spec.ts b/packages/plugins/typescript/operations/tests/ts-documents.spec.ts
index 7d43e14e4cd..a9086a5e817 100644
--- a/packages/plugins/typescript/operations/tests/ts-documents.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/plugins/typescript/operations/tests/ts-documents.spec.ts
@@ -6441,4 +6441,34 @@ function test(q: GetEntityBrandDataQuery): void {
       `);
     });
   });
+
+  describe('when using stripIgnoredCharacters option', () => {
+    it('correctly removes unused chars', async () => {
+      const ast = parse(/* GraphQL */ `
+        query {
+          me {
+            ...UserFragment
+          }
+        }
+        fragment UserFragment on User {
+          id
+        }
+      `);
+      const result = await plugin(
+        schema,
+        [{ location: 'test-file.ts', document: ast }],
+        // @ts-expect-error This is a config option from client side visitor we want to pass in
+        { stripIgnoredCharacters: true },
+        { outputFile: '' }
+      );
+      expect(result.content).toBeSimilarStringTo(`
+        export type Unnamed_1_QueryVariables = Exact<{ [key: string]: never; }>;
+
+
+        export type Unnamed_1_Query = { __typename?: 'Query', me?: { __typename?: 'User', id: string } | null };
+
+        export type UserFragmentFragment = { __typename?: 'User', id: string };
+      `);
+    });
+  });
 });