Free Online Remove Whitespace Tool

A whitespace cleaner trims excess spaces and tabs with three modes: collapse runs to one space, strip all whitespace, or trim edges only.

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How to Use This Text Tool

  1. Paste your messy text into the input field.
  2. Choose a mode: Collapse (default), Strip all or Trim edges.
  3. The cleaned output appears in the result panel.
  4. Click Copy to send the result to your clipboard.

What Is a Remove Whitespace?

Whitespace issues creep in everywhere: copy-pasted text picks up tabs and non-breaking spaces from PDFs, scraped HTML retains leading indentation, OCR output sprays multiple spaces between words. The cleaner gives you three escape hatches: Collapse (multi-space becomes one), Strip all (no whitespace at all — useful before hashing or equality checks), and Trim (only remove leading and trailing).

Non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) are normalised to regular spaces in every mode so downstream tooling treats them consistently — a frequent source of mysterious bugs when text comes out of Word or a PDF.

All three modes run instantly in your browser.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'collapse' spaces mean?
Multiple consecutive spaces become a single space. 'Hello world' becomes 'Hello world'. Useful for cleaning inconsistent spacing while keeping word breaks intact.
Does it remove tabs?
Yes. In 'strip all' mode tabs are removed entirely. In 'collapse' mode tabs are converted to single spaces along with any other consecutive whitespace.
What about non-breaking spaces?
Non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) are normalized to regular spaces in all modes so downstream tools handle them consistently.

Published by the WeGotEveryTool team. We build and test every tool in-house and update pages when the underlying spec, formula, or recommendation changes.

Reviewed: May 2026. Disclaimer: this tool is provided as-is for general informational use. For decisions with material consequences (medical, legal, financial, security) verify results against a qualified professional source.

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