Whitespace Trimmer & Text Cleaner
Remove extra spaces, blank lines, leading and trailing whitespace, and clean up messy text formatting in one click.
Runs in your browser. No data leaves your device.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the Whitespace Trimmer work?
The tool applies a series of regex-based replacements depending on which options you enable: String.trim() for leading/trailing whitespace, /[ \t]+/g collapsed to single spaces for consecutive spaces, /\n{3,}/g collapsed to double newlines for extra blank lines, and per-line trimming via split-map-join. Each transformation runs independently so you control exactly which whitespace types are cleaned.
What types of whitespace does it remove?
Leading and trailing spaces on each line, multiple consecutive spaces, extra blank lines, tabs, and other invisible whitespace characters. You can toggle each cleaning option independently.
Will it remove line breaks between paragraphs?
You control this with the options. You can remove all blank lines, collapse multiple blank lines into one, or keep them as-is. Only the specific whitespace types you select are cleaned.
What is this useful for?
Cleaning up text copied from PDFs, emails, or web pages that often contain extra spaces and formatting artifacts. Also useful for cleaning code, CSV data, and any messy text before processing.