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Whitespace Manager

Clean up and manage whitespace in your text. Remove extra spaces, tabs, and line breaks. The tool processes everything locally in your browser.

Whitespace Operations

Remove whitespace from the beginning and end of the text

Convert multiple consecutive spaces to a single space

Replace tab characters with spaces

Replace spaces with tab characters (4 spaces = 1 tab)

Delete empty lines or lines that contain only whitespace

Delete all spaces, tabs, and line breaks

Replace all line breaks with spaces

Make all indentation consistent (uses spaces)

Tips:

  • Use "Trim whitespace" to clean up text copied from various sources
  • Use "Normalize spaces" to ensure consistent spacing throughout your text
  • Use "Convert tabs to spaces" when preparing code for environments that don't handle tabs well
  • Use "Remove blank lines" to compress text and remove unnecessary empty lines
  • Enable "Show whitespace" to visualize spaces (·), tabs (→), and line breaks (↓)

How to Use the Whitespace Manager

  1. Enter or paste your text in the input area
  2. Select the operations you want to perform on the whitespace
  3. View the result in the output area
  4. Use the copy button to copy the result

About Whitespace Management

Whitespace refers to the blank characters in text that are not visible when printed, including spaces, tabs, and line breaks. Proper whitespace management is essential for:

  • Cleaning up text copied from various sources
  • Preparing text for data processing or analysis
  • Improving code readability and consistency
  • Normalizing text formatting across documents
  • Reducing file size by removing unnecessary whitespace

Common whitespace operations include:

  • Trimming - Removing whitespace from the beginning and end of text
  • Normalizing - Converting multiple consecutive whitespace characters to a single space
  • Converting - Changing tabs to spaces or vice versa
  • Removing - Eliminating all whitespace or specific types of whitespace

Our Whitespace Manager tool provides a comprehensive set of options to handle all these operations, ensuring your text has exactly the whitespace formatting you need.