Clean up messy text — strip extra spaces, tabs, and blank lines instantly
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The Whitespace Remover tool cleans up messy text in seconds. Whether your content has extra spaces between words, stray tab characters, unnecessary blank lines, or mixed line endings, this free online tool handles it all. Paste your text, pick the cleanup options you need, and get a clean result ready to copy — no downloads, no sign-up required.
It handles multiple consecutive spaces, tab characters, leading and trailing whitespace per line, blank lines (lines that are empty or contain only spaces), and all line breaks. You can enable or disable each option independently.
'Collapse spaces' reduces multiple consecutive spaces in the middle of a line to a single space (e.g. 'hello world' becomes 'hello world'). 'Trim whitespace' removes spaces and tabs from the start and/or end of each line.
Yes — enable the 'Remove all line breaks' option to join every line into a single continuous string. It also collapses any resulting extra spaces, giving you clean single-line output.
Yes. Enable 'Normalize line endings' to convert Windows CRLF (\r\n) and old Mac CR (\r) line endings to standard Unix LF (\n) before processing.