Empty Line Remover

Delete blank lines from a document and see exactly how much was removed.

Delete blank lines

Paste text to remove its blank lines.
Lines are counted before and after so you can see exactly what was dropped.

How to use the Empty Line Remover

  1. Paste the document that contains blank lines.
  2. Choose how whitespace-only lines and runs of blanks are treated.
  3. Copy the tidied text with the Copy button.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about the free online empty line remover.

Paste the text and every empty line is deleted straight away, with the result shown next to the original character count.
By default a line containing only spaces, tabs or non-breaking spaces is treated as empty and removed along with truly blank lines.
Instead of deleting every empty line it keeps one, so long runs of blank lines shrink to a single paragraph break.
No. Only the empty lines are dropped, so words, punctuation, indentation and accents inside real lines stay exactly the same.
Yes. The stats line reports the characters before and after plus the number of blank lines the tool found in your text.
Yes. Paragraph marks become ordinary line breaks, and lines that only hold a space are cleaned away by the whitespace option.
No fixed limit. Very large documents are handled, though they may take a moment to process on an older device.
No. The cleaning happens locally in your browser and nothing you paste is sent anywhere.

Last updated: October 10, 2026