Whitespace Remover
The Whitespace Remover cleans up messy text in one pass.
100% in-browser · no data sent
Pick exactly which kinds of whitespace to strip — leading and trailing spaces, repeated spaces, tab characters, blank lines, line breaks or invisible Unicode characters such as zero-width spaces and non-breaking spaces — and copy the tidy result.
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How to Use
Paste your text
Drop in the text you want to clean. It can be a single line, a paragraph or a whole file's worth of content.
Choose what to strip
Tick the cleanup options you need: trim line ends, collapse repeated spaces, remove blank lines, convert tabs, or strip invisible characters.
Check the result
The cleaned text updates as you type, along with a count of how many characters were removed.
Copy it out
Copy the cleaned text to your clipboard and paste it wherever you need it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What counts as whitespace?
Ordinary spaces, tab characters, line breaks and carriage returns are the obvious ones. Text copied from web pages or PDFs often also contains invisible Unicode whitespace such as non-breaking spaces (U+00A0), zero-width spaces (U+200B) and en/em spaces, which look identical to a normal space but break searching, sorting and code.
What is the difference between collapsing and removing spaces?
Collapsing turns each run of two or more spaces into a single space, so words stay separated and the text stays readable. Removing all spaces deletes every space character, which is useful for cleaning up codes, IDs or serial numbers but will run words together.
Will it break my code indentation?
It can, so choose carefully. Trimming line ends only removes trailing whitespace, which is safe for code. Collapsing repeated spaces or converting tabs will change leading indentation, so leave those off if you are cleaning source code.
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. The whole cleanup runs in JavaScript inside your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded, logged or stored. You can even use the tool with your network disconnected.