Online text cleaner solves a problem that often crops up, especially when you copy some text from HTML pages, websites, or pdf, that some hidden characters are also copied. Apart from that you often get double white spaces in between words or even some HTML tags .

The text cleaner tool below can remove line breaks, strip HTML, remove double space ,garbage non-printable characters

Online text cleaner for white space or invisible characters

How do invisible characters get created?

There are a lot of invisible Unicode characters: special characters, language-specific fillers, and regular white-space characters. These symbols have a specific meaning and can be used in various applications instead of regular empty spaces.

Here is a list of whitespace Unicode characters.

UnicodeHTMLDescriptionExample
U+0020 &#32Space[ ]
U+00A0&#160No-Break Space[ ]
U+2000&#8192En Quad[]
U+2001&#8193Em Quad[]
U+2002&#8194En Space[]
U+2003&#8195 Em Space[]
U+2004&#8196Three-Per-Em Space[]
U+2005&#8197Four-Per-Em Space[]
U+2006 &#8198 Six-Per-Em Space[]
U+2007 &#8199Figure Space[]
U+2008 &#8200Punctuation Space[]
U+2009&#8201 Thin Space[]
U+200A&#8202Hair Space[]
U+2028 &#8232 Line Separator[]
U+205F&#8287 Medium Mathematical Space[]
U+3000&#12288 Ideographic Space[]

What are Hidden non-printing characters?

Non-printing characters or formatting marks are symbols that help you format a document in text editors. Even if you choose to display them on the monitor, they cannot be printed.Non-printing characters include:

  • spaces,
  • tabs,
  • paragraph marks,
  • line breaks,
  • non-breaking spaces,
  • page breaks,
  • section breaks,
  • column breaks,
  • end-of-cell and end-of row markers in tables,
  • small black square in the margin to the left of a paragraph,
  • anchor symbols.

The web app was created using GS2Web SaaS framework which can be used to create Web Calculators

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