Remove Line Breaks from Text
Instantly clean up your text by removing unwanted line breaks and paragraph spacing. Perfect for developers, writers, and data analysts.
Clean My TextOnline Line Break Remover
Paste your text to convert it into a single, continuous line with just one click.
Why Use Our Line Break Remover?
Our tool provides a fast and effective way to reformat text by removing all types of line breaks.
Powerful Cleaning
Removes all line breaks (CRLF, LF) and extra spaces to create a clean, single line of text.
Instant & Simple
No complicated options. Paste your text, click one button, and copy your result. It's that easy.
Completely Private
All processing is done in your browser. Your text is never sent to a server, ensuring total privacy.
How It Works
Cleaning your text is an effortless three-step process.
Paste Your Text
Copy text from any source—like a PDF, email, or website—and paste it into the text area.
Click the Button
Press the "Remove Line Breaks" button. The tool will instantly process your text.
Copy the Result
Your text is now a single, clean line. Click the "Copy" button to use it anywhere you need it.
A Simple Guide to Line Breaks
Understand what line breaks are, why they can be problematic, and how removing them can clean up your text.
What Are Line Breaks?
A line break, also known as a newline or end-of-line (EOL) character, is a special character in a text file that signals the end of a line of text. When you press the "Enter" or "Return" key on your keyboard, you are inserting a line break character. This tells the computer to move the cursor down to the next line.
Interestingly, different operating systems historically used different characters for this. Windows uses a combination of two characters: a Carriage Return (CR) and a Line Feed (LF), often written as \r\n. Unix-based systems like Linux and macOS use only a Line Feed (LF), written as \n. Our tool is designed to recognize and remove all of these variations.
Why Can Line Breaks Be a Problem?
While essential for formatting human-readable documents, line breaks can cause issues when text is copied from one source to another, especially from formats not intended for plain text editing.
- Copying from PDFs: When you copy text from a PDF, each visible line often ends with a hard line break, even if it's in the middle of a sentence. Pasting this text into an editor results in a choppy, difficult-to-edit paragraph.
- Data Formatting: If you are trying to import data into a spreadsheet or database, unwanted line breaks can cause the data to be split across multiple rows or cells incorrectly, corrupting your dataset.
- Web Forms and Social Media: Some online forms or social media platforms have strict character limits or do not handle pasted line breaks well, leading to formatting errors.
- Cleaning up Email Text: Copying text from an email can introduce strange formatting, including unnecessary line breaks that need to be removed before the text can be reused.
How Our Line Break Remover Works
Our tool simplifies the cleaning process with a powerful yet straightforward operation. When you click the "Remove Line Breaks" button, it performs two key actions:
- Removes All Line Breaks: It uses a regular expression (
/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm) to find every type of line break in your text and replaces each one with a single space. This effectively merges all separate lines into one. - Cleans Up Extra Spaces: After removing the breaks, there might be multiple spaces where a line break and existing spaces met. A second step (
.replace(/\s+/g, ' ')) collapses any sequence of multiple spaces into a single space, ensuring the final output is clean and properly spaced.
The result is a single, continuous paragraph of text, perfect for reformatting, pasting into a data field, or any other purpose where line breaks are not desired. Because this all happens instantly in your browser, your text remains completely private and secure.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about our Line Break Remover tool.
This tool removes all line breaks from a block of text, converting multiple lines into a single, continuous line. It also cleans up any extra spaces that might result from the process.
It's very useful for cleaning up text that you've copied from sources like PDFs or emails, where each line often ends in a break. It's also great for formatting text to be pasted into a spreadsheet cell or a web form that doesn't accept multi-line input.
Yes, 100%. All the text processing is done on your computer within your browser. No data is ever sent to our servers, so your information remains completely private.
Yes, our Line Break Remover is completely free to use, with no limits on how much text you can process.
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