Whitespace Visualizer
Reveal hidden spaces, tabs and newlines.
How to use
- 1 Paste the text you want to inspect into the input box.
- 2 Toggle which whitespace types to reveal: spaces, tabs or newlines.
- 3 Read the visualized output, where each whitespace character shows a glyph.
- 4 Check the counts to see how many of each type the text contains.
About Whitespace Visualizer
The Whitespace Visualizer makes invisible characters visible so you can finally see what your text is really made of.
Spaces appear as a middle dot, tabs become a right arrow, line breaks are marked with a pilcrow, and the notorious non-breaking space (U+00A0) gets its own distinct glyph so it can never hide again.
These characters are the usual culprits behind broken diffs, mis-aligned code, failing string comparisons and copy-paste errors where two strings look identical but are not.
Paste any text and the visualization updates live.
You can toggle each category independently — for example, reveal only tabs to check indentation, or only non-breaking spaces to hunt for the ones that slipped in from a word processor or a web page.
A running count of spaces, tabs, newlines and non-breaking spaces gives you a quick summary of the input at a glance.
Because the work happens entirely in your browser, nothing you paste is ever uploaded, logged or stored, so it is safe for private snippets and proprietary code, and it continues to work offline once the page has loaded.
FAQ
Why do two identical-looking strings fail to match?
Often a hidden non-breaking space or a trailing space is to blame. This tool reveals those characters so you can spot the difference.
What glyphs does it use?
Spaces show as ·, tabs as →, newlines as ¶, and non-breaking spaces as a distinct glyph so you can tell them apart.