Whitespace remover

Strip trailing, leading and duplicate whitespace

What to clean

Strip trailing whitespaceThe one everybody wants, and what most linters enforce.Strip leading whitespaceDestroys indentation — leave this off for code.Collapse runs of spaces and tabsIndentation is preserved unless the option above is also on.Collapse blank lines to oneOne blank line is a paragraph break; six are an accident.Delete zero-width and bidi charactersIncludes a UTF-8 BOM. Note this also removes U+200D, which can split an emoji sequence.Turn exotic spaces into plain spacesNon-breaking, thin, hair, figure and ideographic spaces.Trim blank lines from the start and endLeading and trailing empty lines only.

Tabs and spaces

Tab width

Line endings

Input is always normalised first, so mixed endings cannot survive.

Input

Cleaned

Characters removed

0 → 0

Lines changed

Leading, trailing or interior whitespace edited

Lines removed

Blank lines collapsed or trimmed away

UTF-8 bytes

was 0

Invisible characters found in the input

Paste some text and it will be checked for the 39 invisible characters this tool knows about.

Revealed input

Show whitespace as glyphs

Nothing to show yet.

· space · → tab · ¶ line feed · ␍ carriage return. Highlighted glyphs are invisible characters — hover one for its name.