Whitespace / Line Break Remover

What is Whitespace Remover?

The Whitespace Remover tidies pasted text with four toggles: trim leading/trailing whitespace on every line, collapse runs of spaces/tabs into a single space, remove line breaks to join everything into one paragraph, or strip all whitespace characters entirely.

How it works

Each toggle applies a targeted regular-expression pass over the text: per-line trimming splits on newlines and trims each, space collapsing squeezes horizontal whitespace runs, and line-break removal joins lines with a single space. All processing happens locally in your browser.

1. Paste messy text. Paste text copied from an email, document or PDF that has inconsistent spacing.
2. Toggle the cleanups you want. Trim lines, collapse spaces, remove line breaks, or remove ALL whitespace.
3. Copy the cleaned result. The cleaned text updates live, and the removed-character count shows how much was stripped.

Examples

Joining a wrapped paragraph

Remove line breaks from a copy-pasted paragraph that got hard-wrapped at 80 characters.

Normalizing a list

Trim leading spaces accidentally introduced when pasting an indented list.

Common mistakes

Removing line breaks from code

Stripping newlines from code destroys its structure — this tool is designed for prose and plain text, not source files.

Assuming collapse is a full trim

'Collapse spaces' only squeezes interior runs; enable 'Trim lines' too if you also want edges cleaned.

Alternatives

Text Formatter tools

The JSON/CSV formatters normalize whitespace inside structured data.

Text Case Converter

Normalize capitalization in the same cleaning pass.

Frequently asked questions