Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces

📌 Detailed Description of the Tool: “Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces”

This tool is designed to clean up unwanted leading and trailing spaces from text. Whether you are formatting a document, cleaning up code, or preparing structured data, this tool ensures that unnecessary spaces are removed while keeping the text structure intact.

🛠 Key Features & How It Works

1️⃣ Input Section

• Users enter or paste their text into the input text area.
• Several convenient buttons enhance usability:
  • Paste from Clipboard – Quickly pastes copied text.
  • Import from .txt – Uploads a .txt file with text data.
  • Clear Input – Erases all content in the input field.
  • Load Example – Populates the input with sample text for testing.

2️⃣ Options Section – Custom Processing Modes

Users can choose how spaces are removed by selecting one of the following options:

🔹 Option 1: Trim Each Line (Default)

• What it does: Removes both leading and trailing whitespace (spaces and tabs) from every line.
• Ideal for general text cleanup to improve readability.

🔹 Option 2: Remove Leading Spaces Only

• What it does: Eliminates only spaces at the start of each line (tabs remain untouched).
• Useful for cleaning up indentation in poorly formatted text.

🔹 Option 3: Remove Trailing Spaces Only

• What it does: Eliminates only spaces at the end of each line, keeping leading spaces intact.
• Helps to maintain structured text alignment while preventing unnecessary spaces.

🔹 Option 4: Remove Tabs Only

• What it does: Removes **all tab characters** while keeping spaces intact.
• Useful for **text formatting cleanup**, especially when handling tab-separated data.

🔹 Option 5: Remove Tabs and Trailing/Leading Spaces

• What it does: First removes all tab characters, then eliminates leading and trailing spaces.
• Perfect for cleaning up text copied from documents or websites with mixed spaces and tabs.

3️⃣ Process Button

• Clicking the “Process Text” button applies the selected cleanup mode to the input text.
• The cleaned-up text is displayed in the output section.

4️⃣ Output Section

• Displays the cleaned text after processing.
• Comes with a set of useful buttons:
  • Copy Output – Copies the cleaned text to the clipboard.
  • Download Output – Saves the cleaned text as a .txt file.
  • Clear Output – Clears the output area.
  • Append to Input – Moves the cleaned text back into the input area for further editing.

5️⃣ Example Demonstrations

• Each example includes:
• ✅ Before & After comparison.
• ✅ A “Try This Example” button to instantly apply the example in the tool.

🚀 Why Use This Tool?

• ✅ Cleans up text formatting errors.
• ✅ Improves readability for documents, emails, and code.
• ✅ Saves time with quick automatic processing.
• ✅ Prevents accidental spacing issues in structured content.

This tool is completely free and runs entirely in your browser without requiring installation or external APIs. 🚀