Remove Line Breaks
Free online line break remover to join multi-line text into a single paragraph or clean a comma-separated list. Remove every newline, keep paragraph breaks, or replace line endings with spaces, commas, or a custom separator — instantly in your browser. No signup, nothing is uploaded.
Input & options
Paste, pick a mode, joinClean text output
Ready when you areYour joined text will appear here
Paste some multi-line text on the left and click Remove Line Breaks.
What does this Remove Line Breaks tool do?
This free online line break remover takes text that is spread across many short lines and joins those lines back together. It's the tool you reach for whenever you've copied text out of a PDF, an email client, a text column on a website, or a spreadsheet cell — and the result is a mess of broken sentences that weren't there in the original.
Hard line wrapping is a display feature, not part of the text. A PDF that shows a sentence across three visual lines is really one continuous string. When you copy that text out, every visual line wrap becomes a real newline character, and the result is a paragraph that's shattered into fragments. This tool puts it back together.
You get full control over how the lines are joined. You can flatten everything into a single line, keep paragraph boundaries intact so the document structure survives, or convert a vertical list into a comma-separated one-liner for import into a database or spreadsheet. Every option runs locally in your browser, so nothing you paste leaves your device.
Modes explained
All into one line
Every line break is removed and replaced with the separator you choose. The output is a single continuous line of text. This is what you want when the source was hard-wrapped and the whole thing is really one paragraph — a product description copied from a PDF, a single-line address, or a long text string destined for a database field.
Keep paragraphs
Single line breaks inside a paragraph are joined, but blank lines (double newlines) are preserved as paragraph boundaries. This is the mode that fixes a document copied from a PDF: the mid-sentence wraps disappear, and the paragraph structure you actually want stays visible. Use it for articles, essays, emails, and any document where paragraph breaks carry meaning.
Replacement options
When two lines are joined, the separator between them matters. These are the choices and when each one is useful:
| Separator | What it does | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Space | Joins lines with a single space | Fixing hard-wrapped paragraphs, prose, articles |
| Nothing | Concatenates lines with no gap | Reassembling text where the wrap didn't add a space (URLs, code, hyphenated words) |
| Comma | Joins lines with , | Turning a vertical list into a CSV-ready line |
| Pipe | Joins lines with | | Building delimited strings for logs or exports |
| Custom | Any text you type, including \n and \t | Semicolon lists, tab-separated output, or any unusual delimiter |
If you choose "Space" and the option to trim whitespace is on, you'll end up with exactly one space between every joined line, which is usually what people want.
Line endings — CRLF, LF, and CR
Different operating systems mark the end of a line with different invisible characters. Before doing anything else, this tool normalises every line ending to a single \n so mixed input is handled consistently.
| Format | Characters | Used by |
|---|---|---|
| Windows (CRLF) | \r\n (0x0D 0x0A) | Windows, DOS, many Windows text editors |
| Unix (LF) | \n (0x0A) | Linux, macOS, BSD, Docker, most modern systems |
| Mac classic (CR) | \r (0x0D) | Classic Mac OS (pre-OS X), some legacy files |
You'll see mixed endings all the time when files move between systems — a PDF generated on Windows, a log file from a Linux server, a template created on an old Mac. The tool handles all three without you having to think about it.
Common use cases
- Fixing text copied from PDFs — The single most common reason. A paragraph that came out as nine short lines becomes one clean paragraph in Keep paragraphs mode.
- Cleaning email replies — Email clients wrap quoted text at odd widths. Join the lines back and the message reads the way it was written.
- Vertical list to CSV — Copy a list of one item per line and turn it into a comma-separated single line ready for import into a spreadsheet or database.
- Flattening spreadsheet cells — A cell with line breaks inside it can be flattened to a single string for use in a URL, a search query, or an API call.
- Preparing text for forms — Many single-line fields (product titles, meta descriptions) reject multi-line input. Flatten the text first.
- Reassembling addresses — Addresses copied from PDFs often break mid-line. Join them into the canonical single-line format.
- Building test data — Generate long single-line strings for testing parsers and form validators.
Before and after examples
Two concrete cases so you can see exactly what each mode does.
Fixing a hard-wrapped paragraph (Keep paragraphs + Space)
Input:
This text is spread
across several lines
because it was hard-wrapped.
This is a second
paragraph with more lines.
Output:
This text is spread across several lines because it was hard-wrapped.
This is a second paragraph with more lines.
Vertical list to CSV (All into one line + Comma)
Input:
Apple
Banana
Cherry
Date
Output:
Apple, Banana, Cherry, Date