Remove Extra Spaces
Runs entirely in your browser
Collapse multiple spaces, trim leading and trailing spaces, and optionally remove blank lines. Everything happens directly in your browser.
How to use Remove Extra Spaces
- Paste your text into the Input box.
- Choose which cleanup options to apply.
- Click Clean Text.
- The cleaned result appears in the Output box — copy it with one click.
Features
- Collapses multiple spaces and tabs into a single space.
- Trims leading and trailing spaces from every line.
- Optionally removes blank lines.
- 100% client-side — your text never leaves your browser.
Example
With the default options (collapse spaces on, trim lines on, remove blank lines off), this input — copied from a web page, with extra spaces and a stray blank line — is 88 characters long:
This text has extra spaces.
Contact us at support@example.com for help.becomes 73 characters:
This text has extra spaces.
Contact us at support@example.com for help.Output lines: 4 · Characters removed: 15. Notice the blank line between the two sentences is kept — only leading, trailing and repeated spaces were touched.
Tips for cleaning pasted text
- Collapsing spaces only affects regular spaces and tab characters — a non-breaking space (sometimes pasted from web pages or Word documents) isn't matched by this pattern and can still leave a gap that looks empty but isn't.
- Blank lines are left in place unless you turn on Remove blank lines — with only Trim enabled, an empty line stays empty but isn't deleted.
- Cleanup runs one line at a time — it never merges separate lines together or removes the line breaks themselves, so your paragraph structure stays intact.
- Use this before Remove Duplicate Lines or Text Sorter when working with copied lists, since stray spaces can otherwise make identical-looking lines compare as different.
Is Remove Extra Spaces safe?
Yes. Remove Extra Spaces collapses regular spaces and tabs locally in your browser — as noted above, it deliberately leaves non-breaking spaces untouched — and your text is never uploaded to a server or kept once you close or refresh the tab.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does 'collapse multiple spaces' do?
It replaces runs of two or more spaces or tabs within a line with a single space.
What does 'trim leading and trailing spaces' do?
It removes any spaces at the very start or end of each line, without touching spaces in the middle.
Will this remove blank lines too?
Only if you turn on the Remove blank lines option. Otherwise empty lines are kept, just with any extra spaces cleaned up.