Whitespace Remover

This tool removes every space, tab, newline, and other standard whitespace character from your text, leaving the remaining characters joined together with nothing between them. It's a blunt, total strip rather than a tidy-up — the goal here isn't to normalize spacing, it's to eliminate it entirely.

Paste your text on the left and the whitespace-free version appears instantly on the right, ready to copy, download, or share.

What counts as "whitespace" here?

Regular spaces, tabs, newlines, carriage returns, and less common characters like non-breaking spaces and other Unicode space separators are all removed. Invisible formatting characters that aren't actually whitespace — like zero-width spaces — are left untouched, since they belong to a different category of character.

Concretely, that covers the space bar character, tab, line feed and carriage return (however your text's line breaks were encoded), vertical tab, form feed, the non-breaking space you get from copying text out of a PDF or word processor, the wider Unicode space characters used in some typeset or East Asian text, and the invisible byte-order-mark character some editors add to the start of a file. A zero-width space or zero-width joiner is a different Unicode category entirely — those are formatting characters, not whitespace — and pass through untouched. If you need those stripped too, that's exactly what the remove text formatting tool's individual toggles are for.

How is this different from just trimming extra spaces?

Most "clean up spacing" tools trim leading and trailing whitespace and collapse repeated spaces down to one — they normalize spacing, they don't remove it. This tool does neither of those things; it removes every whitespace character, including the single spaces between ordinary words. "hello world" becomes "helloworld", not "hello world" with the extra padding trimmed off. If normalized, human-readable spacing is what you actually want — leading and trailing whitespace trimmed, repeated spaces collapsed, but the words still separated — the remove text formatting tool's "Strip Extra Spaces" and "Trim" options are the better fit.

Why would I want to remove all whitespace?

Occasionally you need text with absolutely no separation at all — generating a compact identifier from a phrase, testing how a layout behaves with an unbroken string, or preparing a value for a system that treats whitespace as a delimiter and can't have any stray spaces inside a token. If you actually want tidied-up spacing rather than none at all, the remove line breaks tool collapses line breaks while keeping your words separated, and the remove text formatting tool offers more granular control over exactly what gets stripped.

Related tools

• Remove Line Breaks — collapse or replace line breaks while keeping words separated.
• Remove Text Formatting — pick and choose exactly which formatting to strip.
• Remove Underscores — replace underscores with spaces instead of removing them.
• Invisible Text Generator — the opposite tool: adds invisible spacing characters.

Last reviewed: August 2026