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✂️ Remove Extra Whitespace

Clean up messy spacing — collapse multiple spaces, remove tabs, trim lines, normalize whitespace characters. 100% private, runs in your browser.

Input Text
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Whitespace Visualizer
Processing Options
Quick Presets
Processing Log
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Settings
Tab Width
Line Ending
Trailing Newline
Max Consecutive Blanks
Tab width only applies when "Tabs → Spaces" is enabled.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Ctrl+↵ Clean whitespace
Alt+C Copy output
Alt+D Download output
Alt+S Swap input ↔ output
Alt+V Visualize whitespace
Alt+X Clear all
Alt+O Open file
Whitespace Breakdown
Enter text to see breakdown
Whitespace Types
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Space (U+0020) — Regular space character. Most common whitespace.
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Tab (U+0009) — Horizontal tab. Used for indentation in code.
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Line Feed (U+000A) — Unix/Mac newline character.
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Carriage Return (U+000D) — Part of Windows CRLF line ending.
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NBSP (U+00A0) — Non-breaking space. Often from HTML or Word docs.
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Other Unicode — Em space, en space, thin space, zero-width, etc.
Privacy
🔒 100% Client-Side
All text processing happens entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent to any server.
Your text never leaves your device.

About Removing Extra Whitespace

Why Remove Whitespace?

Extra spaces, tabs, and invisible characters make text messy, increase file sizes, and can cause bugs in code. Cleaning whitespace improves readability and ensures consistent formatting.

Common Sources

Extra whitespace often comes from copy-pasting between applications, HTML editors inserting  , mixed tab/space indentation, or multiple people editing the same document.

Tabs vs Spaces

The eternal debate! This tool can convert tabs to spaces with your preferred width (2, 4, or 8). This ensures consistent indentation across different editors and environments.

Unicode Whitespace

Besides regular spaces and tabs, Unicode defines many whitespace characters: em space, en space, thin space, zero-width space, and more. This tool detects and normalizes them all.