How the text cleaner works
Last updated 10 November 2026
Text copied from emails, documents and websites often carries extra spaces, blank lines and hidden characters. Choose what to clean and copy the result.
How it works
- Each option is applied in turn to your text.
- Removing HTML tags strips anything between angle brackets.
What clutter looks like
Text copied from emails, PDFs and web pages carries extras you cannot always see: double spaces, blank lines, tabs, spaces at the ends of lines, line breaks in the middle of sentences and hidden characters. They cause trouble when you paste into a form, a spreadsheet or a message.
What you can clean
- Trim spaces at the start and end of lines.
- Turn runs of spaces into one.
- Remove blank lines or turn several into one.
- Turn curly quotes and long dashes into plain ones.
- Remove HTML tags from copied web text.
- Strip invisible characters such as zero-width spaces.
Invisible characters
Some characters take up no room on screen but still count as text. They can sneak in when you copy from a web page or a chat. They break searches, make two identical-looking lines differ and can make a form reject what looks like a valid entry. Removing them is often the fix.
A caution about HTML
Removing tags strips what is between angle brackets and leaves the words. It is a convenience for copied text. It is not a safe way to clean untrusted web content before using it on a website, so do not rely on it for security.
Related tools
After cleaning, try the duplicate line remover, the case converter or the text compare tool. Nothing leaves your browser.
Things to watch
- Stripping tags removes the tags, not the text between them, and is not a safe way to clean untrusted HTML.
Everything runs in your browser. Your text never leaves your device.
Like every tool on MoneyMzansi, this one runs entirely in your browser. There is no account, no upload and no sign-up, so it keeps working even if your connection drops once the page has loaded.