Text Margin Formatter

A text margin formatter adds margins, padding, and decorative borders around text blocks using ASCII characters. It transforms plain text into visually distinct blocks with frames, making it ideal for terminal displays, source code comments, documentation, and creative text formatting.

The tool offers multiple border styles including: single-line boxes (─│┌┐└┘), double-line boxes (═║╔╗╚╝), rounded corners (╭╮╰╯), bold borders (━┃┏┓┗┛), asterisk frames (***), hash frames (###), plus sign frames (+++), and simple dashed borders. Each style creates a different visual effect suitable for various contexts.

Yes! You can independently adjust both horizontal and vertical margins (space outside the border) and padding (space between the border and your text). This allows you to create compact frames or spacious boxes depending on your needs and the context where the formatted text will be used.

The tool supports left-aligned, center-aligned, and right-aligned text within the border. Left alignment is standard for code and documentation, center alignment creates a balanced look for titles and headers, and right alignment can be useful for special formatting needs.

Yes! The tool uses standard ASCII and Unicode box-drawing characters that display correctly in most terminals, code editors, and text viewers. The simpler border styles (like asterisks and hashes) work universally, while the box-drawing characters require Unicode support but work in all modern terminals and editors.

Absolutely! The tool automatically handles multi-line text, wrapping long lines to fit within a maximum width if specified, and properly framing each line within the border. This makes it perfect for formatting paragraphs, code comments, documentation blocks, and ASCII art.

Common uses include: creating prominent headers in source code files, formatting important comments or warnings, creating ASCII art titles, adding visual separation in documentation, formatting terminal output messages, creating decorative email signatures, highlighting important text in README files, and creating visually distinct sections in plain text documents.

Yes, you can set a maximum width for the text box. The tool will automatically wrap text to fit within this width, or you can leave it unset to have the border fit the longest line in your input text. This is useful for creating consistent-width boxes or ensuring text fits within specific column constraints.

The tool provides quick presets for common scenarios like code comment headers, terminal banners, warning boxes, title frames, and documentation sections. These presets combine appropriate border styles, padding, and alignment settings to instantly create professionally formatted text blocks.

Yes, the tool preserves all characters in your input text including tabs, multiple spaces, and special characters. However, be aware that very wide characters or emojis may affect alignment in the final output, especially in terminals that handle character widths differently.

Yes! The tool includes a copy button that lets you instantly copy the formatted text to your clipboard. You can then paste it directly into your code editor, terminal, documentation, or any other application that supports plain text.

Padding is the space between the border and your text content (inside the box), while margin is the space outside the border (surrounding the entire bordered box). Padding affects how cramped or spacious the text looks within the frame, while margin affects the spacing around the entire formatted block when placed in a larger document.