Extra Space Remover
Paste your text and instantly collapse double spaces, trim line edges, strip tabs, remove blank lines, or wipe out every whitespace character — including hidden non-breaking and zero-width spaces.
Non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) and invisible zero-width characters are always normalized automatically, even with every option below turned off.
"Remove ALL whitespace" strips every space, tab and line break, so the options above have no additional effect while it's checked.
Paste some text above, then click "Clean text".
Why pasted text needs a whitespace cleanup
Text copied from a PDF, an old email thread, a spreadsheet cell or a CMS often carries whitespace problems that are invisible until they cause trouble: double spaces left over from a typewriter-era habit, tabs mixed with spaces for alignment that breaks the moment the font changes, a trail of blank lines from a deleted paragraph, or a non-breaking space silently sitting where a normal space should be. This tool cleans all of that up in one pass, entirely inside your browser, with a live character count so you can see exactly how much was removed.
The five cleanup operations, and the order they run in
Each checkbox is an independent operation, and when more than one is checked they always run in the same fixed pipeline, top to bottom:
- Collapse multiple spaces into one — squeezes runs of two or more regular spaces down to a single space. Words, punctuation and line breaks are untouched.
- Trim spaces at the start and end of every line — removes leading and trailing spaces or tabs on each line, without touching the line breaks themselves.
- Remove tabs — replaces every tab character with a single space, so two words separated only by a tab don't get glued together.
- Remove blank lines — deletes any line that is empty or contains only whitespace.
- Remove ALL whitespace — the nuclear option: strips every space, tab and line break from the whole text, producing one continuous string with no gaps.
Because the order is fixed, combining options can produce results that a single pass wouldn't — for instance, a tab converted to a space in step 3 will not be swept up by the space-collapsing step, since that step already ran in step 1.
Example 1 — cleaning up a copy-pasted paragraph. Input: " This sentence has extra spaces. ". With Collapse multiple spaces and Trim line edges checked, the result is "This sentence has extra spaces." — 32 characters removed.
Example 2 — removing indentation and blank gaps from pasted code notes. Input has tab-indented lines followed by three blank lines in a row. Checking Remove tabs and Remove blank lines converts each leading tab to a single space and collapses the blank-line run to nothing, tightening the whole block.
Example 3 — building a compact slug. Input: "Q3 Sales Report 2026". Checking only Remove ALL whitespace gives "Q3SalesReport2026" — every space is gone, useful for IDs or filenames, but not what you'd want for a sentence.
Invisible characters this tool always fixes
| Character | Codepoint | What happens to it |
|---|---|---|
| Non-breaking space | U+00A0 | Converted to a regular space |
| Zero-width space | U+200B | Removed entirely |
| Zero-width non-joiner | U+200C | Removed entirely |
| Zero-width joiner | U+200D | Removed entirely |
| Zero-width no-break space (BOM) | U+FEFF | Removed entirely |
This normalization runs before any checkbox, on every single click of "Clean text" — so text pasted from word processors and web pages, which frequently contain these characters without any visual sign, gets fixed no matter which options you leave unchecked.
Things to know
- Character counts use the raw length of the text (JavaScript string length), shown live for the input and as a before/after/removed summary once you clean the text.
- "Use as input" lets you feed the cleaned result back in, which is handy for applying options one at a time and watching the effect of each.
- Your last pasted text and checkbox choices are optionally remembered in this browser's local storage, purely for convenience — nothing is ever sent anywhere.
- Everything runs in plain JavaScript; there is no size limit beyond what your own device can comfortably handle.
Sources & further reading
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove extra spaces from text online for free?
Paste your text into the box, tick the cleanup options you want — collapsing double spaces and trimming line edges cover most cases — and click "Clean text." The result appears instantly below with before-and-after character counts, and everything runs locally in your browser, so there's nothing to install and no file to upload.
What's the difference between collapsing spaces and removing all whitespace?
"Collapse multiple spaces into one" only squeezes runs of two or more space characters down to a single space, so words, punctuation and line breaks stay exactly where they were. "Remove ALL whitespace" is far more aggressive: it deletes every space, tab and line break in the text, gluing everything into one continuous string with no gaps at all — useful for building compact IDs or slugs, but rarely what you want for normal prose.
Does this tool remove non-breaking spaces and invisible zero-width characters?
Yes, automatically. Text copied from Word, Google Docs or web pages often carries a non-breaking space (U+00A0) where a normal space should be, or invisible zero-width characters (U+200B–U+200D, U+FEFF) that silently break search-and-replace, string comparisons and word counts. This tool normalizes non-breaking spaces to regular spaces and strips zero-width characters before any of the checkboxes below even run, so those invisible bugs are fixed whether or not you tick anything.
In what order are the cleanup operations applied?
Always in the same fixed order, regardless of which boxes you check: collapse multiple spaces, trim line edges, remove tabs, remove blank lines, then remove all whitespace. The order matters — for example, a tab is converted to a single space after the space-collapsing step runs, so that new space is not re-collapsed even if it lands next to another space. If you need a fully squeezed result, check "Remove ALL whitespace" instead of combining several milder options.
Is my text uploaded to a server when I use this tool?
No. This tool runs entirely in your browser using plain JavaScript — the text you paste, the options you choose and the cleaned result are never sent to a server or logged anywhere. Your last input and settings are optionally kept in this browser's local storage only, purely for convenience, and clearing your browser data removes them. There's no sign-up, no upload and no practical size limit beyond what your device can handle.