Remove line breaks from text online — free, instant, no login required. Paste any multi-line text, choose to strip line breaks or replace them with spaces, and copy the clean result in one click.
What this tool does
- Removes all line breaks (newlines) from any pasted text
- Option to replace each line break with a space instead of deleting it
- Handles Windows (CRLF), Unix (LF), and old Mac (CR) line endings
- Works with any amount of text — no character limit
- One-click copy of the clean result to your clipboard
Why remove line breaks?
Text copied from PDFs, emails, or web pages often arrives with unwanted line breaks inserted mid-sentence. This makes it difficult to paste directly into a form, CMS editor, or code. Removing line breaks turns fragmented lines back into a continuous block of text, saving manual editing time.
Remove vs replace with space
"Remove Line Breaks" deletes the newline character entirely, joining lines with no separator — useful when copying from columns or narrow-width documents where words wrap mid-sentence. "Replace with Space" inserts a space where each newline was, which is better for normal prose where each line ends mid-sentence and needs a word separator.
Handling Windows and Unix line endings
This tool handles all common line ending formats: Windows-style CRLF (\r\n), Unix-style LF (\n), and old Mac-style CR (\r). Regardless of what operating system generated the text, the tool will strip all line endings consistently.
Common use cases
- Clean up text copied from a PDF with hard line wraps mid-sentence
- Remove line breaks from an email thread before pasting into a form or CMS
- Flatten multi-line addresses into a single line for a spreadsheet or database
- Prepare text for single-line input fields that reject newline characters
- Join wrapped lines from a narrow-width document or code editor output