Pads each line to the specified column width using the chosen padding character. Center alignment splits padding evenly on both sides. Right alignment pads on the left. Useful for ASCII art, terminal displays, and formatted reports. Runs entirely in your browser.
This tool fills the gap CSS can't fill: aligning text in environments where every character is the same width. Terminal banners, code comments, ASCII art frames, fixed-width log columns, and README badges all rely on counting characters rather than measuring pixels — and that is exactly what this tool does.
For each line the tool measures its character length, computes the padding needed to reach the target width, and inserts the chosen pad character. Centring distributes the padding as floor(extra/2) on the left and ceiling(extra/2) on the right — the standard ASCII-art convention. Lines already at or beyond the target width are left untouched so nothing is truncated.
The line is left exactly as it is — never truncated and never wrapped. Only shorter lines get padded out to the target width.
Yes. Set the pad character to anything you like: a dot for dot leaders, an underscore for fill-in-the-blank lines, a dash for separator banners, or any single Unicode glyph.
No — alignment is character-based, so it only looks correct in a monospace font (terminals, code editors, fixed-width email). In Times or Arial the columns will drift.
When the leftover padding is odd, one side gets the extra character. The tool puts that extra on the right (floor on the left, ceiling on the right) — the standard convention for ASCII centring.
See also Text Pad, Whitespace Converter, and the Word Wrap tool for related fixed-width formatting.