Remove Empty Lines
Delete blank and whitespace-only lines from any text in one step.
Remove Blank Lines from Text Online
Copying text from PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, or web pages often leaves behind empty lines that break up your content. This free tool deletes every blank line instantly while keeping the rest of your text intact.
How to use it
- Paste your text into the input box (or open a .txt file).
- Empty lines disappear from the output as you type.
- Copy the result or download it as a text file.
Features
- Whitespace-aware – optionally removes lines that only contain spaces or tabs, which look empty but aren't.
- Keeps your formatting – indentation and spacing inside non-empty lines are not touched.
- Live preview – the result updates as you type, with character, word, and line counters for both sides.
- Private – all processing happens locally in your browser.
Common uses
Clean up lists before importing them into Excel or Google Sheets, tidy code snippets, remove gaps from exported logs, or prepare keyword lists for SEO tools. If you also need to delete repeated lines, try the Remove Duplicate Lines tool, and use the Whitespace Remover for extra spaces inside lines.
Frequently Asked Questions
What counts as an empty line?
A line with no characters at all is always removed. With the default setting, lines that contain only spaces or tabs are treated as empty too. Turn the option off if you want to keep lines that contain whitespace.
Will the order of my lines change?
No. Only blank lines are dropped; every other line stays exactly where it was, with its original content and indentation.
Is there a size limit?
The tool runs in your browser, so it can handle very large texts (hundreds of thousands of lines) as long as your device has enough memory. Nothing is uploaded to a server.