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Whitespace Remover — Strip Extra Spaces, Tabs & Blank Lines

Clean extra spaces, tabs, and blank lines. Optional zero-width Unicode strip catches sneaky invisible characters.

Free No signup Client-side Privacy friendly Updated

How to use

  1. 1 Paste your text into the input box.
  2. 2 Pick a mode — Collapse merges multi-spaces, Trim lines cleans each line's edges, Edges only trims the whole text, Strip all removes every whitespace character.
  3. 3 Toggle zero-width Unicode stripping if you suspect hidden characters.
  4. 4 Copy the cleaned text.

Why use this tool

  • Four modes — covers cleanup, code minification, and security audits.
  • Zero-width Unicode strip catches U+200B (ZWSP), U+200C (ZWNJ), U+200D (ZWJ), U+2060 (Word Joiner), U+FEFF (BOM).
  • Useful for sanitizing pasted text before posting to forms with strict validation.
  • Pure client-side — text stays private.

Frequently asked questions

Why would text contain zero-width characters?

Sometimes they are intentional (BiDi marks for right-to-left text). Sometimes they are pasted from rich-text editors. Sometimes they are used in phishing to disguise URLs. The Strip option is on by default.

What is the difference between Collapse and Trim lines?

Collapse merges multi-spaces and multi-newlines globally. Trim lines only removes whitespace at the start and end of each line, preserving internal spacing and blank lines.

Does Strip all remove newlines?

Yes — it removes every whitespace character including spaces, tabs, and all line breaks. Use Remove Line Breaks if you only want to handle newlines.

What is Whitespace Remover?

A Whitespace Remover is a tool that cleans extra spaces, tabs, and blank lines from text. It runs in the browser and collapses redundant whitespace, with an optional pass that strips zero-width Unicode characters to catch invisible characters that ordinary trimming misses. It is used to normalize text copied from documents, code, or web pages.

Features

Multiple clean-up modes

Collapse repeated whitespace, trim each line, strip all spaces, or trim leading/trailing edges.

Zero-width stripping

Optionally remove invisible characters (U+200B–U+200D, U+FEFF) that hide in pasted text.

100% private

Runs on your device — your text is never uploaded.

Example

Input

a    b   c

Output

a b c

Common use cases

  1. 1

    Normalize pasted text

    Collapse the double spaces and stray tabs from copied documents or code.

  2. 2

    Catch invisible characters

    Strip zero-width characters that break IDs, passwords, or comparisons.

  3. 3

    Tidy before processing

    Clean whitespace so downstream parsing or diffing behaves predictably.

Summary

Zerethon's whitespace remover cleans extra spaces, tabs, and blank lines from text in your browser, with modes to collapse runs, trim each line, strip all whitespace, or trim edges. An optional pass removes zero-width Unicode characters that ordinary trimming misses. Nothing is uploaded.

Category
Creator
Pricing
Free
Privacy
Browser-based
Signup
Not required

References

Privacy

Your data never leaves your browser unless explicitly stated. Whitespace Remover runs entirely client-side — no server upload, no logging, no tracking of your input.

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