Remove Extra Spaces
Strip extra spaces — and the invisible characters that broke your text in the first place.
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How to use Remove Extra Spaces
Paste the text
Especially if it came from Word, Google Docs, a PDF or a web page — those are where invisible characters come from.
Check what was found
The table lists every invisible character in the text, how many there were, and which lines they are on.
Clean it, or reveal it first
Reveal mode marks each invisible character inline without changing anything, so you can see the problem before you fix it.
Why use this remove extra spaces
Runs on your device
Your input is handled entirely in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, so there is nothing for us to store, log or leak.
No sign-up, no quota
No account, no daily limit, no watermark and no email wall. Use it once or two hundred times a day.
Built to be linked
Options are stored in the URL, so a configured tool is a link you can send to a colleague or bookmark.
Technical notes
Most whitespace tools collapse runs of U+0020 and stop. The characters that actually break things are the ones you cannot see — a non-breaking space from Word that stops a CSV splitting, a zero-width space that makes two identical strings compare unequal. This tool detects fourteen of them, names each one, and reports which lines they are on.
The invisible characters this tool detects
| Character | Code | Why it breaks things |
|---|---|---|
| Non-breaking space | U+00A0 | Looks like a space, is not one. Breaks CSV splitting and slugs. |
| Zero-width space | U+200B | Invisible. Identical-looking strings compare unequal. |
| Zero-width joiner | U+200D | Builds emoji. Stray ones corrupt text silently. |
| Byte order mark | U+FEFF | Shows as "" and breaks the first CSV header. |
| Soft hyphen | U+00AD | Invisible until the line wraps, then a hyphen appears. |
| Narrow no-break space | U+202F | French typography and some spreadsheets. |
| Ideographic space | U+3000 | Full-width space from CJK input methods. |
| LTR / RTL marks | U+200E, U+200F | Reorder text unexpectedly. Pasted from RTL documents. |
Supported
- 14 invisible and exotic whitespace characters, each named and located
- Reveal mode — see the problem before changing anything
- Line-ending detection, including mixed CRLF and LF
- Smart quote, em dash and ellipsis normalisation
- Tab to space conversion at any width
Limits and trade-offs
- Zero-width non-joiner (U+200C) is legitimate in Persian, Hindi and Bangla. Removing it in those languages changes the text — the tool reports it, and the choice is yours.
- It never joins wrapped lines back into paragraphs. That needs to know where a paragraph ends, which is a guess this tool will not make for you.
- Emoji built from zero-width joiners will be broken apart if you delete zero-width characters. Turn that option off when the text contains emoji.
Last verified August 2026 · benchmarks re-run each quarter.
Frequently asked questions
Why does my text have invisible characters in it?
Word, Google Docs and PDF readers insert non-breaking spaces to control line wrapping, and content management systems insert zero-width spaces around formatting. None of them render as anything, so they survive copy and paste unnoticed and then break whatever you paste them into.
What is a non-breaking space and why does it matter?
U+00A0 renders exactly like a normal space but stops the line wrapping there. It matters because it is not the space character: a CSV parser splitting on " " will not split on it, a URL slug generator will not treat it as a word boundary, and a string comparison will fail.
What is a zero-width space?
U+200B occupies no width at all — it is completely invisible. Two strings that look identical will compare as different if one contains it. It is the single most common cause of "these two values are the same but my code says they are not".
Does this remove line breaks?
Only if you ask it to. "Remove all blank lines" strips empty lines entirely; "collapse multiple blank lines" reduces runs of them to one. Neither joins your paragraphs into a single line — that is a separate operation and this tool does not do it silently.
What does reveal mode show?
It replaces every invisible character with a visible marker: ¶ for a line break, · for a space when enabled, and the code point in brackets for anything invisible — so a non-breaking space appears as ⟦U+00A0⟧. The text itself is unchanged.
Is my text uploaded?
No. Everything runs in this browser tab. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and the tool keeps working.