Trim Text - Strip Leading & Trailing Whitespace
Strip only the leading and trailing whitespace from a block of text, without touching whitespace in the middle or offering extra cleaning options.
Trimmed Result
No leading/trailing whitespace found
How to Use the Trim Text Tool
Paste your text into the input box and the leading and trailing whitespace — spaces, tabs, and line breaks at the very start and very end of the whole block — is stripped instantly. This is the single, literal meaning of "trim": it does not touch whitespace in the middle of your text or clean up individual lines, it just removes what's hanging off the beginning and end of the entire input.
Example
Input with three spaces before "Hello world" and a trailing newline after it becomes exactly "Hello world" — nothing in between is changed.
Common Use Cases
- Cleaning a stray leading space or trailing newline off a value pasted from another app.
- Preparing a single line of text — like a username or code snippet — for exact comparison.
- Quickly trimming a block of text without opening a menu of cleaning options.
FAQs
How is this different from the Whitespace Cleaner?
The Whitespace Cleaner is a full cleaning suite with several checkboxes — trimming each line, removing blank lines, collapsing multiple spaces, and converting tabs to spaces. This tool is deliberately minimal: it does exactly one thing, stripping only the leading and trailing whitespace from the entire input as a single block, for anyone who just wants that one specific operation without a menu of choices.
Does this trim whitespace from every line, or just the ends?
Just the very start and very end of the whole input — not each individual line. If you need per-line trimming as well, use the Whitespace Cleaner instead.
Does this collapse multiple spaces in the middle of my text?
No — only leading and trailing whitespace is removed. Spaces, tabs, and line breaks anywhere in the middle of your text are left exactly as you typed them.