Remove Line Breaks
Remove or normalise line breaks from any text — strip every newline, replace with spaces, or collapse extra blank lines. Runs entirely in your browser.
Why you need to remove line breaks
Line breaks are invisible characters that control where text wraps onto a new line. They are essential in source code and poetry, but become noise in many real-world workflows. Pasting a PDF or web page into an email, a spreadsheet cell, or a database field often introduces hard line breaks that break formatting and cause import errors. A dedicated tool makes cleaning this up instant.
Three modes for every use case
-
Remove all — strips every
- Replace with space — swaps each newline for a space, so words from adjacent lines remain separated. The go-to choice when cleaning up prose, article copy, or exported report text before pasting into a word processor or email.
- Collapse extra blank lines — leaves paragraph breaks (one blank line between paragraphs) untouched but merges three or more consecutive blank lines into a single blank line. Perfect for reformatting documents that have been over-spaced during conversion.
Optional space collapse
Enable Collapse spaces to merge runs of two or more consecutive spaces into one after the line-break transformation. This catches the double-space that often appears when "Replace with space" is used on text that already had spaces before the newline.
Privacy
All processing happens locally in your browser. Your text is never uploaded to any server, so you can safely clean confidential documents, legal copy, or internal data.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between "Remove all" and "Replace with space"?↓
"Remove all" deletes every newline character so adjacent lines merge directly — "Hello\nWorld" becomes "HelloWorld". "Replace with space" swaps each newline for a single space — "Hello\nWorld" becomes "Hello World". Use "Replace with space" when processing prose or CSV-style data where words must stay separated.
What does "Collapse extra blank lines" do?↓
"Collapse extra blank lines" leaves paragraph structure intact but squashes three or more consecutive newlines down to exactly two. This is useful when cleaning up copy-pasted content that has large gaps between paragraphs while keeping the single blank-line separation between them.
Does the tool handle Windows-style (\r\n) line endings?↓
Yes. All three modes normalise Windows CRLF (\r\n) and old Mac CR (\r) line endings to Unix LF (\n) before applying any transformation. You can safely paste text from Windows Notepad, Word, or any platform.