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Normalize Whitespace from Web Page Copy

Web pages use various whitespace characters for layout. When you copy text, these show up as double spaces, tabs, and invisible characters. Fix them here.

How to do this

Copy text from a web page

Paste into the tool

Normalize spacing

Copy clean text

Paste text below and run the tool. Everything runs locally in your browser. No data is stored.

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Normalize Whitespace

Normalize all types of whitespace including tabs, multiple spaces, and non-breaking space characters into clean single spaces. Trims leading and trailing whitespace.

Example

Input

Hello    world		here   we   go

Output

Hello world here we go

How Normalize Whitespace Works

Normalize all types of whitespace including tabs, multiple spaces, and non-breaking space characters into clean single spaces. Trims leading and trailing whitespace.

This tool runs entirely in your browser — no data is sent to any server. Paste your text, click Run, and get your result instantly. You can also chain this tool with others using the pipeline feature: run Normalize Whitespace, then continue with a related tool to build a multi-step text workflow.

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TextRefinery is a free, open-source text processing toolkit. Learn more about regular expressions and text processing on the web.

Example: Normalize Whitespace from Web Page Copy

Input

Article    title    here

   Author:   John    Smith

   Published:   March   2026

Output

Article title here
Author: John Smith
Published: March 2026

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