Pad Lines

Pad each line to a width with align and fill.

Left, right, or center. Custom fill character. Empty lines stay empty.

What Pad Lines does

Left, right, or center. Custom fill character. Empty lines stay empty.

This URL is only for Pad Lines (pad lines). Pad each line to a width with align and fill. Other Text tools on Tool-You look similar in the chrome, so the job definition below is the part that belongs to Pad Lines alone: Left, right, or center. Custom fill character. Empty lines stay empty.

How to use Pad Lines

  1. Keep this tab on Pad Lines (/pad-lines). Pasting into the wrong Text tool (for example Indent Lines) changes the job.
  2. Paste or type the input Pad Lines expects. Path hint: pad lines. Pad each line to a width with align and fill.
  3. Apply the Pad Lines action only. Wrap Text is a different transform (Hard-wrap lines at a column width.). Left, right, or center. Custom fill character. Empty lines stay empty.
  4. Copy the output of Pad Lines if you need it elsewhere. Size/complexity still follows: Width 1–80. Align start/end/center. Single fill char. Max 200,000 characters.
  5. If the text job is actually Indent lines with spaces or tabs., leave Pad Lines and open Indent Lines.

When not to use Pad Lines

Skip Pad Lines when a neighbor tool matches better — start with Indent Lines or Wrap Text — or when the description already warns the job will fail. In the tool’s own words: Left, right, or center. Custom fill character. Empty lines stay empty.

Questions about Pad Lines

What does Pad Lines do that other Text pages on this site do not?
Left, right, or center. Custom fill character. Empty lines stay empty. Short version: Pad each line to a width with align and fill.
Does Pad Lines upload my file or text to Tool-You servers?
No. Pad Lines runs in this browser tab. Files stay on the device. Limit note: Width 1–80. Align start/end/center. Single fill char. Max 200,000 characters.
Should I use Indent Lines instead of Pad Lines?
Use Pad Lines when you need Pad each line to a width with align and fill. Use Indent Lines when you need Indent lines with spaces or tabs. They share a category (Text) but not the same job.
What are the limits of Pad Lines?
Width 1–80. Align start/end/center. Single fill char. Max 200,000 characters. Also: Left, right, or center. Custom fill character. Empty lines stay empty.