How do I right-align text?

Select Right-align, set your desired column width, and click Pad. Each line will be padded with spaces on the left to push the text to the right edge of the column.

What is full justification?

Full justification (also called justified text) stretches each line to exactly fill the specified width by inserting extra spaces between words, like newspaper columns.

Text Pad & Justify — Left, Right, Center, Full Justify

Text padding and alignment is used in terminal applications, fixed-width reports, code generation, and data serialisation. This tool pads each line of text to a fixed column width using your choice of alignment: left, right, center, or full-justify.

Padding Modes

Left pad: Adds characters to the left (useful for right-aligning numbers)
Right pad: Adds characters to the right (useful for left-aligning text in columns)
Center: Distributes padding evenly on both sides
Full justify: Inserts spaces between words to fill the exact column width
Truncate: Cuts lines to the specified maximum width

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I pad numbers to the same width?

Enter numbers one per line, select Left pad, set the pad character to 0, and set the column width to the maximum digit count. For example, to format 42 as 00042, use width 5 and pad char 0.

What is the difference between left-padding and right-aligning?

They are the same thing. Adding padding to the left of a string pushes the content to the right, achieving right-alignment. String.prototype.padStart() in JavaScript implements left-padding.

Text Pad & Justify online

Align and pad text lines left, right, center, or full-justify to a fixed column width — runs in your browser

Padding Modes

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I pad numbers to the same width?

What is the difference between left-padding and right-aligning?