diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWebView/ViewImplementation.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibWebView/ViewImplementation.cpp
index 8b92d32d73..26cd98a458 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWebView/ViewImplementation.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWebView/ViewImplementation.cpp
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <LibCore/DateTime.h>
 #include <LibCore/StandardPaths.h>
 #include <LibGfx/ImageFormats/PNGWriter.h>
+#include <LibWeb/Infra/Strings.h>
 #include <LibWebView/ViewImplementation.h>
 
 namespace WebView {
@@ -128,6 +129,14 @@ DeprecatedString ViewImplementation::selected_text()
     return client().get_selected_text();
 }
 
+Optional<String> ViewImplementation::selected_text_with_whitespace_collapsed()
+{
+    auto selected_text = MUST(Web::Infra::strip_and_collapse_whitespace(this->selected_text()));
+    if (selected_text.is_empty())
+        return OptionalNone {};
+    return selected_text;
+}
+
 void ViewImplementation::select_all()
 {
     client().async_select_all();
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWebView/ViewImplementation.h b/Userland/Libraries/LibWebView/ViewImplementation.h
index ccbba54d97..9567a472bc 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWebView/ViewImplementation.h
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWebView/ViewImplementation.h
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ public:
     void set_preferred_color_scheme(Web::CSS::PreferredColorScheme);
 
     DeprecatedString selected_text();
+    Optional<String> selected_text_with_whitespace_collapsed();
     void select_all();
 
     void get_source();