Remove Empty Lines
Paste your text below and empty or whitespace-only lines are removed instantly, while all remaining text stays unchanged and in the same order.
- Input Lines
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- Output Lines
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- Empty Lines Removed
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- Characters
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- Words
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CleanTextly's Remove Empty Lines tool is a free online empty line remover that instantly deletes blank and whitespace-only lines while leaving normal line breaks and content untouched. Paste content with scattered blank lines — from a document export, a code file, or a list copied from somewhere else — and every completely empty line, along with lines containing only spaces or tabs, is removed automatically, while every other line keeps its exact original content and order.
Features
Removes Blank & Whitespace-Only Lines
Deletes completely empty lines as well as lines containing only spaces or tabs — a single pass handles both.
Instant, Live Processing
Empty lines are removed as you type or paste — there's no button to click and no submit step.
Preserves Line Order & Exact Content
Every remaining line keeps its original position and its exact original text — nothing is trimmed or rewritten.
Works With Any Line Ending
Windows (CRLF), Mac (CR), and Unix (LF) line endings are all detected and handled correctly, even when mixed in the same file.
100% Private
Everything runs locally in your browser. Your text is never uploaded, logged, or stored anywhere.
How to Use
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Paste your text
Add the text you want to clean up into the input box.
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Watch empty lines disappear
Blank and whitespace-only lines are removed instantly as you type — there's nothing to run.
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Review the live statistics
Input lines, output lines, and empty lines removed update in real time as you edit your text.
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Copy, paste, or download
Copy the cleaned result to your clipboard, paste directly from your clipboard into the box, or download it as a .txt file.
Example
Cleaning Up a Document With Scattered Blank Lines
Input
First line. Second line. Third line. Fourth line.
Output
First line. Second line. Third line. Fourth line.
Common Use Cases
Cleaning Up Pasted Documents
Remove blank lines left behind when copying text out of a Word document, PDF, or email into a plain-text field.
Tidying Code & Config Files
Delete empty lines from source files, config files, or log exports to make them shorter and easier to scan.
Preparing Lists for Import
Strip stray blank rows from a list of names, emails, or values before importing it into a spreadsheet or database.
Formatting Content for Publishing
Delete empty lines online before pasting content into a CMS, markdown file, or documentation page.
Frequently Asked Questions
An empty (or blank) line is any line in your text with no content — either completely empty or containing only spaces or tabs. They're different from the normal line breaks that separate lines of real content, which this tool always keeps.
Paste your text into the input box — every empty or whitespace-only line is removed automatically as you type, with nothing to click or upload.
Yes. Any line that's completely empty, or contains only spaces or tabs, is treated as a blank line and removed.
No. Every line that isn't empty is kept exactly as written — this tool only deletes empty lines, it never trims or rewrites the lines you keep.
Removing empty lines deletes entire blank rows from your text, while removing extra spaces collapses repeated spaces and tabs within a line instead. If you need the latter, CleanTextly's Remove Extra Spaces tool handles that separately.
No. Blank lines are deleted, but your remaining lines stay on their own separate lines — this tool removes empty lines, it doesn't join lines together. Use the Remove Line Breaks tool if you want to join lines into one paragraph.
Yes. Lines that survive keep the exact same relative order they had in your original text.
Yes. CRLF (Windows), CR (old Mac), and LF (Unix) line endings are all recognized correctly, even if a single file mixes more than one.
Yes. Text copied from a Word document, PDF, spreadsheet, or email often carries stray blank lines, and this tool removes them the same way it handles any other pasted text — entirely in your browser.
Yes. Processing happens instantly in your browser and comfortably handles large documents with tens of thousands of lines.
No. All processing happens entirely in your browser. Your text is never sent to a server or stored.