Join soft-wrapped lines into single-line paragraphs. Perfect for fixing hard-wrapped plaintext pasted into Markdown.
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Free Markdown Paragraph Unwrapper joins soft-wrapped lines within paragraphs into single-line paragraphs. Text that was hard-wrapped at 72 or 80 columns (common in older editors, email, and plaintext exports) becomes clean, flowing paragraphs. Headings, lists, blockquotes, tables, and code blocks are left untouched.
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Pasting hard-wrapped plaintext into Markdown breaks rendering on every screen width. Fixing it manually across 200 paragraphs is painful. This does it instantly, for free.
| Input | Output | Typical size | Speed | Login needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hard-wrapped Markdown (.md) | Unwrapped Markdown | Up to 5 MB | < 50 ms | No |
Here's what this free tool does in detail — every feature is built to solve real problems, runs entirely in your browser, and is free forever.
The tool identifies paragraph boundaries by blank lines and structural markers. Consecutive non-blank lines that aren't headings, lists, blockquotes, tables, or horizontal rules are joined with a single space. The result is one line per paragraph, exactly what modern Markdown renderers expect.
For the reverse operation (adding hard wraps), see the Free Markdown Line Wrapper.
Headings (#), list items (-, *, 1.), blockquotes (>), tables (|), horizontal rules (---), and fenced code blocks are all recognized and left exactly as written. Only plain paragraph text is unwrapped.
To adjust indentation of the result, follow up with the Free Markdown Indent / Outdent tool.
There are no options to set. Paste, unwrap, copy. The detection logic is deterministic and handles all common hard-wrap patterns: 72-column email wraps, 80-column terminal wraps, and arbitrary-width text editor wraps.
For documents that need broader cleanup, pair with the Free Markdown Formatter.
Content inside fenced code blocks (``` and ~~~) is never joined. Your code samples, shell output, and ASCII art stay line-for-line identical.
For searching and replacing text across paragraphs, try Free Markdown Find & Replace.
Drop a document with hard-wrapped paragraphs into the input. Click Load example for a typical 72-column wrap.
Each multi-line paragraph is joined into a single line. All structural elements are preserved.
Paste the clean paragraphs into your editor, CMS, or Git repo.
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Yes. Free forever, no account required.
It joins consecutive non-blank lines within a paragraph into one long line, removing hard wraps from older editors.
No. Headings, lists, blockquotes, tables, and code blocks are all left untouched.
Yes. The Free Markdown Line Wrapper hard-wraps long lines at a specified column width.
No. Fenced code blocks are skipped entirely.
No. Runs 100% in your browser.