Character & Byte Counter with Text Cleanup

COUNT

Enter text

Text to count and clean up

Characters · with whitespace 0

Characters · no whitespace 0

UTF-8 bytes 0

Lines 0

CLEAN UP

Clean up spaces & line breaks

Choose only the cleanup behavior you need.

Cleanup options

The selected space and blank-line cleanup is applied, and whitespace and line breaks at both ends of the result are always removed.

Collapse repeated spaces and tabs Replace consecutive whitespace such as spaces and tabs within each line with one regular space. Keep blank lines Turn on to preserve blank lines between content, or turn off to remove all blank lines, including lines containing only whitespace.

Line breaks Windows (CRLF) and classic Mac (CR) line breaks are normalized to LF, then kept, replaced one-for-one with spaces, or removed to join adjacent text directly. Blank-line handling runs first.

Format JSON, XML, HTML, SQL, CSS & JavaScript

This formats the original input separately from text cleanup, entirely in the browser. JavaScript, CSS, and SQL are parsed only; they are never executed or sent to the server. Select the matching database dialect for the most accurate SQL output. XML and HTML are parsed and re-serialized by the browser, so quotes, empty tags, and omitted tags may be normalized.

Document type

RESULT

Cleaned result

Cleaned text

BASIS

Counting & cleanup rules

Characters are counted as visible graphemes where possible, including combined emoji and composed characters. The with-whitespace count includes line breaks.
Bytes are counted using UTF-8, the encoding commonly used on the web and in JSON.
Windows (CRLF), classic Mac (CR), and Unix or web (LF) line breaks are normalized to LF during cleanup.