Trim Text

Trim Text is a free online whitespace cleaning tool that removes unwanted spaces, tabs, indentation, and invisible characters from your text. Whether you've copied text from a PDF with ragged spacing, need to normalise indentation in code, or want to clean up form data — this tool handles it in one click.

It goes beyond basic trimming with modes for leading-only, trailing-only, and per-line trimming, plus advanced options for collapsing multiple spaces, converting tabs, removing invisible Unicode characters, truncating lines, and stripping specific characters. Everything runs locally in your browser.

• Trim both sides: Remove leading and trailing whitespace from each line
• Trim leading only: Remove whitespace from the start of each line (preserves trailing)
• Trim trailing only: Remove whitespace from the end of each line (preserves indentation)
• Collapse spaces: Replace multiple consecutive spaces with a single space
• Remove all spaces: Strip every space character from the text
• Tab handling: Convert tabs to spaces (configurable width) or remove all tabs
• Remove invisible characters: Strip zero-width joiners, non-breaking spaces, byte order marks, and other hidden Unicode
• Remove indentation: Strip common leading whitespace from all lines (like code dedent)
• Truncate lines: Limit each line to a maximum character length with optional ellipsis
• Strip specific characters: Enter custom characters to remove from the entire text
• Live statistics: Characters before/after, spaces removed, lines count

1. Paste your text: Enter or paste text with whitespace issues into the input area.
2. Choose a trim mode: Select Trim Both, Trim Leading, Trim Trailing, Collapse Spaces, or Remove All Spaces.
3. Set additional options: Toggle tab conversion, invisible character removal, truncation, or enter custom characters to strip.
4. Click Trim: The cleaned result appears instantly in the output area.
5. Copy or download: Grab the result with one click.

Trim Both:
Input:    Hello World    → Output: Hello World

Collapse Spaces:
Input: Hello     World   Foo → Output: Hello World Foo

Remove Indentation (Dedent):
Input:
    if (true) {
        return;
    }
Output:
if (true) {
    return;
}

Truncate to 20 chars:
Input: This is a very long line of text → Output: This is a very long…

• Clean pasted content: Remove extra spacing from PDF, Word, or web page copies
• Normalise code indentation: Dedent, convert tabs, or standardise spacing
• Data cleaning: Strip invisible characters that break parsers, comparisons, and imports
• Multiple modes: Fine-grained control over exactly which whitespace to remove
• Instant and private: Runs in your browser, no upload, no server processing
• Free and unlimited: No account, no limits on text size