Trim List Items

Trim unwanted whitespace from each line in your list using the Trim List Items Tool. Quickly clean up tabs, spaces, and empty padding around entries. Supports live output, import, export, and copy. See the cleaned item count instantly.

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Supported file types: .txt, .csv, .tsv, .log, .json, .xml, .md, .ini, .yaml, .yml, .html, .htm, .css
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How to Use:

  1. Paste or import a list into the input box.
  2. The tool will automatically trim each line of whitespace.
  3. The cleaned list is shown in the output box.
  4. View the total number of trimmed items.
  5. Copy or export the result with the provided buttons.

What Trim List Items Tool Can Do:

  • Removes leading and trailing whitespace from each list item.
  • Updates live as you type or import content.
  • Works with any plain text list.
  • Includes total item count, file import/export, and clipboard copy.

Example:

Input:

  Apple  
Banana
    Cherry  
Date

Output:

Apple
Banana
Cherry
Date

Common Use Cases:

The Trim List Items tool comes in handy when you’re working with messy text like stuff copied from websites, emails, PDFs, or spreadsheets. It cleans up extra spaces so your lists are easier to compare, sort, or clean up. Great for tidying up tags, form responses, logs really anything where hidden spaces can mess things up. A lot of devs, marketers, content folks, and analysts use it to get clean, ready-to-go text.

Useful Tools & Suggestions:

If you’re trimming list items, Delete Empty List Items is a smart one to run afterward it clears out any lines that got reduced to nothing during the cleanup. And if you’re getting the list ready for export or display, Change List Item Separator helps you control how everything’s split or joined. It’s a tight combo for cleaning up messy input and formatting it exactly how you need.

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