Remove Empty Lines
Remove blank lines from text instantly while preserving the remaining content order. This empty line remover is useful for copied notes, code blocks, and imported lists.
Whether you call it remove empty lines or empty line remover, this free tool handles it instantly in your browser.
Example usage
Example input
line one line two line three
Example output
line one line two line three
Batch Processing
Enter multiple inputs, one per line. Each line will be processed separately.
Why this tool?
Everything runs right in your browser — no uploads, no sign-up, no waiting. Your text never leaves your device.
Quick tips
- •Outputs update live as you type.
- •Use the sticky copy button to grab results quickly.
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How it works
- Paste text with blank lines into the input field.
- The tool removes fully empty lines while keeping the remaining lines in the same order.
- Use the cleaned output for pasting, sorting, or exporting.
Use cases
Blank lines: meaningful or noise?
A blank line is a paragraph break in prose, a record separator in some data formats, and pure noise almost everywhere else. Exports are the usual culprit: a spreadsheet saved to text often carries trailing blank rows, a copied web page brings the gaps between its HTML blocks, and a deleted list item frequently leaves its line behind as an empty one.
Those blanks travel badly. Import a list with empty lines into an email tool and you get failed rows; feed it to a script that counts lines and every total is wrong; paste it into a form and you may hit a length limit padded by nothing.
Cleaning lists before they go anywhere
For list preparation, a reliable order is: remove empty lines first, so counts and comparisons are honest; then deduplicate with Remove Duplicate Lines; then sort with the Alphabetical Order tool. Doing it the other way around means sorting rubbish and deduplicating blanks — several "empty" lines that actually contain a stray space will survive as distinct entries.
That last detail catches people out. A line containing a single space is not technically empty, so it can look blank and behave like data. If lines you expect to disappear are surviving, run Remove Extra Spaces first, or use the trim option in our deduplication tool, which normalizes surrounding whitespace before comparing.
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FAQ
Does it change the text itself?
No. It only removes blank lines and leaves the remaining content untouched.
Is this different from remove line breaks?
Yes. Remove Empty Lines keeps line-based structure, while Remove Line Breaks flattens content into a paragraph or cleaned line output.
Can I use this before sorting lines?
Yes. It is a useful cleanup step before sorting, counting, or joining line-based data.