Remove Line Breaks

What Does "Remove Line Breaks" Mean?

Line breaks are invisible characters in text that tell your computer to start a new line. They appear when you press Enter while typing. While useful in source code and formatted documents, line breaks often cause problems when you paste text between different applications.

This tool strips out those unwanted line breaks, giving you clean, continuous text.

When Do You Need to Remove Line Breaks?

Copying from PDFs — PDF text often contains line breaks at the end of every visual line, turning paragraphs into choppy fragments when pasted elsewhere.

Email formatting — Copying text from certain email clients introduces hard line breaks that look messy when pasted into a document or CMS.

Cleaning up data — When working with CSV files, databases, or spreadsheets, stray line breaks can corrupt your data structure.

Social media posts — Some platforms don't render line breaks the way you'd expect. Removing them gives you clean, flowing text.

Code & markup — When minifying HTML, cleaning template strings, or preparing text for single-line fields, removing line breaks is essential.

How to Use This Tool

1. Paste your text into the input box above.

2. Choose your mode: remove all line breaks, or replace them with spaces (so words don't merge together).

3. Copy the result with one click.

All processing happens in your browser. No data is sent anywhere.

Line Breaks vs. Paragraph Breaks

Not all "enters" are created equal:

• Line breaks (soft returns) move the cursor to the next line without starting a new paragraph. In HTML, this is a
tag.
• Paragraph breaks (hard returns) create a new paragraph with spacing. In HTML, this means a new

  tag.

This tool handles both types, giving you complete control over your text formatting.

Technical Details

Behind the scenes, line breaks are represented by different characters depending on your operating system:

• Windows uses \r\n (carriage return + line feed)
• Mac/Linux uses \n (line feed)
• Old Mac uses \r (carriage return)

This tool detects and removes all three types automatically.