Text Padding Tool

Left padding adds characters before your text (prepending), pushing the text to the right. Right padding adds characters after your text (appending), extending the line while keeping text left-aligned. The choice depends on your alignment needs.

Zero-padding is standard for numeric identifiers like invoice numbers, order IDs, and file sequences. "0001" to "9999" sorts correctly as text, maintains fixed width, and looks professional. Leading zeros clearly indicate the field width.

You have options: truncate lines to the exact width, leave longer lines unchanged, or wrap text to multiple lines. The right choice depends on whether you need strict fixed-width output or just want to add padding to shorter lines.

Padding typically uses a single character repeated to reach the target length. For patterns like ". . . " (dot-space repeating), you'd need to calculate the exact pattern repetitions or use a tool specifically designed for pattern fills.

Center padding places text in the middle of a fixed-width space, commonly used for centered titles, headers, banners, and decorative text layouts in plain text environments where CSS centering isn't available.