Remove Extra Whitespace From Text

Collapse extra spaces turns each run of spaces or tabs into a single space, keeping words readable and separated. Remove all spaces and tabs deletes every space and tab, so words run together with no gaps. Remove all spaces overrides collapse when both are ticked, and it disables the collapse box in the interface.

The tool first normalizes line endings, then handles spaces (remove all, or collapse), then trims each line, then removes blank lines, and finally trims the whole string. That fixed order means, for example, that lines are trimmed before blank lines are detected, so a line of only spaces counts as blank and gets dropped.

Trim each line removes leading and trailing spaces and tabs from every individual line while keeping the line breaks intact, which fixes indentation and trailing padding. Trim whole text only strips whitespace from the very beginning and end of the entire block, leaving the interior untouched.

Turn on Remove blank lines. Any line that is empty, or that contains only spaces and tabs, is dropped and the surrounding lines close up with no gap between them. This is useful for tightening up double-spaced paragraphs or list output.

Yes. Both spaces and tab characters are treated as whitespace. Collapse and remove-all act on runs that mix spaces and tabs, and trimming clears tabs from the ends of lines just as it clears spaces.

Yes. Windows CRLF, classic Mac CR and Unix LF endings are all normalized to plain line breaks before any cleanup runs, so the output is consistent no matter what platform produced the text.

There is no fixed limit. Everything runs in your browser, so the practical ceiling is your device's memory. Even large pastes clean almost instantly because the operations are simple find-and-replace passes.

No. Only whitespace is affected. Letters, digits, punctuation, symbols and capitalization are left exactly as you pasted them, and line breaks are preserved unless you remove blank lines.

Yes. All processing happens locally in your browser and nothing is uploaded to any server, so sensitive or confidential text never leaves your device.