diff --git a/src/renderer/components/+config-resource-quotas/add-quota-dialog.tsx b/src/renderer/components/+config-resource-quotas/add-quota-dialog.tsx
index 1227e970496c..8e1a8a197362 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/+config-resource-quotas/add-quota-dialog.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/+config-resource-quotas/add-quota-dialog.tsx
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ export class AddQuotaDialog extends React.Component<Props> {
               <Input
                 required autoFocus
                 placeholder="ResourceQuota name"
+                trim
                 validators={systemName}
                 value={this.quotaName} onChange={v => this.quotaName = v.toLowerCase()}
                 className="box grow"
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/+config-secrets/add-secret-dialog.tsx b/src/renderer/components/+config-secrets/add-secret-dialog.tsx
index bfd7a3262e85..23adfaf80490 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/+config-secrets/add-secret-dialog.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/+config-secrets/add-secret-dialog.tsx
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ export class AddSecretDialog extends React.Component<Props> {
               <Input
                 autoFocus required
                 placeholder="Name"
+                trim
                 validators={systemName}
                 value={name} onChange={v => this.name = v}
               />
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/+namespaces/add-namespace-dialog.tsx b/src/renderer/components/+namespaces/add-namespace-dialog.tsx
index 213891c2331b..2427c9fd9b3c 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/+namespaces/add-namespace-dialog.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/+namespaces/add-namespace-dialog.tsx
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ export class AddNamespaceDialog extends React.Component<Props> {
               required autoFocus
               iconLeft="layers"
               placeholder="Namespace"
+              trim
               validators={systemName}
               value={namespace} onChange={v => this.namespace = v.toLowerCase()}
             />
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/+preferences/add-helm-repo-dialog.tsx b/src/renderer/components/+preferences/add-helm-repo-dialog.tsx
index 1bf978de6846..3c179660f3fd 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/+preferences/add-helm-repo-dialog.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/+preferences/add-helm-repo-dialog.tsx
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ export class AddHelmRepoDialog extends React.Component<Props> {
               <Input
                 autoFocus required
                 placeholder="Helm repo name"
+                trim
                 validators={systemName}
                 value={this.helmRepo.name} onChange={v => this.helmRepo.name = v}
               />
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/+user-management/+service-accounts/create-dialog.tsx b/src/renderer/components/+user-management/+service-accounts/create-dialog.tsx
index e81206850681..1f50e717c65f 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/+user-management/+service-accounts/create-dialog.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/+user-management/+service-accounts/create-dialog.tsx
@@ -88,8 +88,10 @@ export class CreateServiceAccountDialog extends React.Component<Props> {
           <WizardStep nextLabel="Create" next={this.createAccount}>
             <SubTitle title="Account Name" />
             <Input
-              autoFocus required
+              autoFocus
+              required
               placeholder="Enter a name"
+              trim
               validators={systemName}
               value={name} onChange={v => this.name = v.toLowerCase()}
             />
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/+workloads-cronjobs/cronjob-trigger-dialog.tsx b/src/renderer/components/+workloads-cronjobs/cronjob-trigger-dialog.tsx
index f4006bd89f28..0e2f98d16ad8 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/+workloads-cronjobs/cronjob-trigger-dialog.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/+workloads-cronjobs/cronjob-trigger-dialog.tsx
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ export class CronJobTriggerDialog extends Component<Props> {
           <Input
             required autoFocus
             placeholder={this.jobName}
+            trim
             validators={[systemName, maxLength]}
             maxLength={63}
             value={this.jobName} onChange={v => this.jobName = v.toLowerCase()}
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/input/input.tsx b/src/renderer/components/input/input.tsx
index fa1692e98831..541b988f8c8d 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/input/input.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/input/input.tsx
@@ -40,11 +40,13 @@ export type { InputValidator };
 type InputElement = HTMLInputElement | HTMLTextAreaElement;
 type InputElementProps = InputHTMLAttributes<InputElement> & TextareaHTMLAttributes<InputElement> & DOMAttributes<InputElement>;
 
-export type InputProps<T = string> = Omit<InputElementProps, "onChange" | "onSubmit"> & {
+export type InputProps = Omit<InputElementProps, "onChange" | "onSubmit"> & {
   theme?: "round-black" | "round";
   className?: string;
-  value?: T;
-  autoSelectOnFocus?: boolean
+  value?: string;
+  trim?: boolean;
+  autoSelectOnFocus?: boolean;
+  defaultValue?: string;
   multiLine?: boolean; // use text-area as input field
   maxRows?: number; // when multiLine={true} define max rows size
   dirty?: boolean; // show validation errors even if the field wasn't touched yet
@@ -54,8 +56,8 @@ export type InputProps<T = string> = Omit<InputElementProps, "onChange" | "onSub
   iconRight?: string | React.ReactNode;
   contentRight?: string | React.ReactNode; // Any component of string goes after iconRight
   validators?: InputValidator | InputValidator[];
-  onChange?(value: T, evt: React.ChangeEvent<InputElement>): void;
-  onSubmit?(value: T, evt: React.KeyboardEvent<InputElement>): void;
+  onChange?(value: string, evt: React.ChangeEvent<InputElement>): void;
+  onSubmit?(value: string, evt: React.KeyboardEvent<InputElement>): void;
 };
 
 interface State {
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ const defaultProps: Partial<InputProps> = {
   maxRows: 10000,
   showValidationLine: true,
   validators: [],
+  defaultValue: "",
 };
 
 export class Input extends React.Component<InputProps, State> {
@@ -102,12 +105,10 @@ export class Input extends React.Component<InputProps, State> {
   }
 
   getValue(): string {
-    const { value, defaultValue = "" } = this.props;
+    const { trim, value, defaultValue } = this.props;
+    const rawValue = value ?? this.input?.value ?? defaultValue;
 
-    if (value !== undefined) return value; // controlled input
-    if (this.input) return this.input.value; // uncontrolled input
-
-    return defaultValue as string;
+    return trim ? rawValue.trim() : rawValue;
   }
 
   focus() {
@@ -138,7 +139,8 @@ export class Input extends React.Component<InputProps, State> {
 
   private validationId: string;
 
-  async validate(value = this.getValue()) {
+  async validate() {
+    const value = this.getValue();
     let validationId = (this.validationId = ""); // reset every time for async validators
     const asyncValidators: Promise<any>[] = [];
     const errors: React.ReactNode[] = [];