Text Indent Manager

Text indentation is the practice of adding whitespace (spaces or tabs) at the beginning of lines to create visual hierarchy and structure. It's crucial for code readability, document formatting, and maintaining consistent styling across projects.

Spaces provide consistent visual appearance across all editors and platforms, while tabs allow users to customize the visual width. Many coding standards prefer spaces (typically 2 or 4 per level) for consistency, though some prefer tabs for flexibility and smaller file sizes.

"Adjust to Level" first removes any existing indentation from each line, then applies the specified indentation level. This ensures all lines have exactly the same indentation level, while "Add Indentation" simply adds more indentation to existing content.

The tool will detect mixed indentation patterns and show this in the analysis. To fix mixed indentation, use the "Adjust to Level" operation which removes all existing indentation and applies consistent formatting using your chosen indentation type and size.

This depends on your needs. Preserving empty lines (default) maintains the original structure and spacing of your text. Unchecking this option will skip empty lines during processing, which can be useful when you want to maintain blank lines as visual separators without adding unnecessary indentation.

Common conventions include: 2 spaces for HTML, CSS, and JSON; 4 spaces for Python, Java, and C#; 2 or 4 spaces for JavaScript and TypeScript; tabs for Go and some C/C++ projects. However, the most important thing is consistency within your project or organization.

Yes, this tool is excellent for enforcing coding standards by standardizing indentation across files. You can use it to convert legacy code to match your team's style guide, clean up copied code from different sources, or prepare code for submission to projects with specific formatting requirements.

Use the "Remove Indentation" operation with enough levels to strip all indentation, or use "Adjust to Level" with 0 levels. The tool will remove leading whitespace from all selected lines, giving you clean, left-aligned text.

There's no strict character limit, but very large texts may take longer to process. The tool is optimized for typical code files and documents. For extremely large files, consider processing them in smaller sections to maintain good performance.