Remove Text Formatting - Clean Hidden Characters

A remove formatting tool strips fonts, colors, emojis, non-printable characters, and zero-width spaces, leaving plain text. It helps when pasted content brings messy styling or invisible characters that break layouts. Processing stays in your browser, so your data remains private.

1. Paste content: Add text from web pages, Word docs, or chats.
2. Choose what to strip: Toggle removing HTML tags, emojis, zero-width spaces, and other hidden characters.
3. Get results: See clean text instantly. Copy it or download as a .txt file.

• Stops layout bugs: Hidden characters can break forms or code—remove them quickly.
• Cleaner pastes: Keep only the words when moving between editors.
• Local privacy: No content leaves your device.

Use case 1: CMS and docs

Strip styling from copied web text before pasting into content editors.

Use case 2: Coding

Remove zero-width spaces that cause parsing errors in JSON, YAML, or code files.

Use case 3: Data cleaning

Prepare scraped text for analysis by removing emojis and special characters.

Basic example

Input: Smart quotes “like these” and emojis 😊
Output: Smart quotes "like these" and emojis

Advanced example

Input: Text containing zero-width spaces and non-breaking spaces
Output: Cleaned text without invisible characters, ready for validation.

Needed emojis removed

If you want emojis, leave that toggle off before cleaning.

Collapsed spacing

Removing non-breaking spaces can change layout. Run the whitespace remover to adjust spacing after cleaning.

• Combine with the plain text converter to strip HTML and styling together.
• After cleaning, set casing using the case converter.
• For wrapped text, use the remove line breaks tool after formatting removal.

• Flatten whitespace with the whitespace remover.
• Strip HTML directly using the plain text converter.

All cleaning happens locally in your browser. No content is uploaded or stored.