✂️ Trim Line Start & End

Remove leading and trailing whitespace from each text line instantly. Perfect for cleaning up text formatting, removing unnecessary spaces, and standardizing line indentation. Works with spaces, tabs, and mixed whitespace.

Enter Your Text:

📌 Trimmed Output:

Enter text and click "Trim All Lines" to remove leading/trailing whitespace...

Total Lines

Trimmed Lines

Chars Removed

💡 How it works:

Paste or type your text in the textarea
Click "Trim All Lines" to remove whitespace
Removes spaces, tabs, and other whitespace from line start and end
Preserves the content and structure of lines
Works with mixed whitespace (spaces and tabs)
Statistics show lines and characters removed

📝 Examples:

Input (With Leading/Trailing Spaces):

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4

Output (After Trimming):

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4

Input (With Tabs and Spaces):

Name Address City

Output (Cleaned):

Name Address City

Input (Mixed Content):

apple banana cherry date

Output (Trimmed):

apple banana cherry date

Statistics (Example):

Total Lines: 4 Trimmed Lines: 4 Characters Removed: 28

📚 Use Cases:

Clean up text copied from documents or web pages
Remove unwanted indentation from lists or code
Format data before importing into databases
Standardize text formatting across multiple lines
Prepare CSV or tab-separated data for processing
Remove extra whitespace from configuration files
Clean up exported or generated text files

ℹ️ Note: This tool removes all leading and trailing whitespace (spaces, tabs, and other whitespace characters) from each line while preserving internal spacing and line breaks. Empty lines remain empty.

Which invisible characters actually go

Each line is trimmed at both ends by the browser's own rule, which is broader than the space bar:

Removed from the ends	Left in place
Space, tab, carriage return, form feed	Zero-width space (U+200B)
No-break space (U+00A0), the kind pasted out of Word and web pages	Zero-width joiner and non-joiner
En, em and thin spaces (U+2000-200A), ideographic space (U+3000), byte order mark	Every space inside the line

The exclusion on the right can be baffling in practice. A zero-width space sitting at the front of a line is not whitespace, so trimming stops dead there and the ordinary spaces behind it survive too - the line looks untouched. If a line refuses to trim, that is usually why; the Whitespace Visualizer will show you what is really there.

What the tool does not change

Runs of spaces inside a line stay. Only the two ends are touched, so one two keeps its gap.
Blank lines are kept, not deleted. A line of nothing but tabs becomes an empty line, and the line count is identical before and after.
Windows line endings become plain newlines. That is invisible on screen but real in the file, and those carriage returns are not included in the Chars Removed figure.

Trimmed Lines counts lines that changed, not lines that had whitespace: three spaces removed from one line and one tab from another shows as 2 lines and 4 characters.

Frequently asked questions

How do I remove trailing spaces from every line at once?

Paste the block and press Trim All Lines. Both ends of every line are cleaned in one pass; there is no option to do the end only, which matters if you are keeping deliberate indentation.

Does it delete empty lines?

No. Whitespace-only lines are emptied but stay where they are, so paragraph breaks and the overall shape of the text survive.

Will it collapse the double spaces between my sentences?

No, and nothing inside a line is altered. This tool only strips the start and end of each line, leaving the words and the spacing between them exactly as you wrote them.