Remove Line Breaks

Remove Line Breaks and Extra Whitespace

This tool removes line breaks from a block of text so multi-line content becomes a single continuous string, or collapses them into clean, consistent spacing. It is handy when you copy text out of a PDF, email, or terminal and it arrives full of hard wraps, stray newlines, and double spaces. You can strip every break, replace breaks with a single space, or collapse runs of blank lines and whitespace down to something tidy.

How it works

All processing runs locally in your browser with JavaScript. When you paste text, the tool scans for newline characters, carriage returns, and repeated spaces, then rewrites the text according to the mode you choose, with nothing sent to a server. The output updates immediately so you can confirm the spacing before copying it into your document or code. Because it recognizes both line-feed and carriage-return characters, text pasted from Windows, macOS, and Unix sources is normalized the same way without any manual cleanup.

Practical use cases

• Flatten text copied from a PDF back into flowing paragraphs
• Turn a wrapped log line or SQL query into one clean line
• Collapse double or triple blank lines into single line breaks
• Prepare pasted content so it fits a single-line input or CSV cell

For deeper cleanup, combine it with related utilities: use Find and Replace to fix leftover characters, Remove Duplicate Lines to drop repeats, or Sort Text Lines before you flatten a list.

Because everything happens in-browser, your text is never uploaded, stored, or logged. The tool is free, needs no account, and works in any modern browser, including on mobile, so you can clean up sensitive text with confidence.