Remove Line Breaks
Paste text to strip out its line breaks and join it into one continuous block. Choose whether the breaks become spaces, and everything updates live in your browser.
How to remove line breaks
- Paste your text into the box.
- Choose whether each line break becomes a space or nothing, and whether to collapse double spaces.
- Copy the joined result.
About removing line breaks
Text copied from PDFs, emails or code editors is often hard-wrapped — every visual line ends with a real line break. Pasting it elsewhere keeps those breaks, leaving ragged text. Removing the line breaks rejoins the words into flowing paragraphs you can reformat freely.
This tool can replace each break with a space (so words don’t run together) or with nothing (to concatenate), and collapse the resulting double spaces. It all runs in your browser, so even sensitive text never leaves your device.
Hard-wrapped text causes trouble in more places than documents. Paste it into a spreadsheet and each break can spill into a new cell or row; paste it into a form field, a translation tool or a chat message and the mid-sentence breaks travel with it. Joining the lines first gives you one clean block that behaves predictably wherever it lands.
One thing to check afterwards: text copied from PDFs often splits words across lines with a hyphen, and joining the lines leaves fragments like exam- ple in the middle of a sentence. Those need a quick manual fix. Also match the mode to the content — joining with nothing suits a code snippet, a long URL or a key that was wrapped, while prose needs the space option to keep words apart.
Frequently asked questions
Does it remove every line break?
Yes — every line break and carriage return is removed and the lines are joined. You choose whether each break becomes a single space or nothing at all.
Will paragraphs be merged too?
Yes. This tool joins all lines into one block, so blank lines between paragraphs are removed as well. Use it when you want a single continuous run of text.
What does “collapse spaces” do?
After joining lines, you can end up with double spaces where a line already ended in a space. Collapsing spaces reduces any run of spaces to a single space for clean output.
Is my text uploaded?
No. Everything runs in your browser, so the text you paste never leaves your device.
When should breaks become nothing instead of a space?
Choose nothing when the text was one unbroken string before it got wrapped — a long URL, an API key, a serial number or a line of code split across an email. Adding spaces there would corrupt it. For normal prose, use the space option instead, otherwise the last word of each line runs straight into the first word of the next.