Zero Width Remover

Delete zero-width spaces, joiners, byte order marks and other invisible characters.

Remove invisible characters

Zero-width space, joiners and byte order mark

Directional marks and formatting controls Soft hyphens and invisible operators

Replace each one with a space

Paste text to see how many invisible characters it contains.

Invisible characters are reported by count so you can confirm that they are gone.

Common questions about the free online zero width remover.

It is an invisible code point that takes no space but can break searches, comparisons and formatting in text copied from the web.

The zero-width space, the two joiners, the byte order mark, the word joiner, soft hyphens and the directional formatting marks.

The stats line reports the count of invisible characters found and removed, so you can confirm the text is clean.

They arrive with copied web pages, office documents, chat apps and generated files, and they usually cannot be seen on screen.

The removed characters are invisible, so the visible text is unchanged even though the underlying codes are now clean.

Usually yes. Clear that option if your text relies on embedding marks to control direction in mixed left to right and right to left text.

No. Ordinary spaces, tabs and line breaks are always kept, so your layout and word spacing stay exactly as they were.

No. Cleaning happens in your browser and no part of your text is uploaded or stored.

Last updated: October 10, 2026