Remove Extra Spaces

The Remove Extra Spaces tool cleans up whitespace in your text by collapsing multiple consecutive spaces into a single space and trimming leading and trailing whitespace from each line. It is one of the most commonly needed text cleanup operations for writers, developers, and data professionals.

Extra spaces creep into text from many sources. Copying from formatted documents, spreadsheets, or web pages often introduces invisible double or triple spaces. Manual typing errors, automated text generation, and OCR output frequently produce uneven spacing. These extra spaces may be invisible in some editors but cause problems in code, data processing, HTML rendering, and formatted output.

This tool processes your text line by line. For each line, it trims any leading whitespace at the beginning and trailing whitespace at the end, then replaces any run of two or more consecutive spaces within the line with a single space. The line structure of your text is preserved, so paragraphs and intentional line breaks remain intact.

The operation is performed entirely in your browser using JavaScript. No data is sent to any server, making it completely safe for confidential or sensitive content. The tool handles any amount of text up to 50,000 characters and works correctly with Unicode text, including accented characters, emoji, and text in any language.

Whether you are preparing text for publication, cleaning data for analysis, formatting code comments, or tidying up copy-pasted content, this tool saves you the tedium of hunting down and fixing extra spaces manually.