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 Center Text Tool

Center text instantly by padding every line with spaces, dots, dashes, or any custom character until it sits in the middle of your chosen line width. Great for headers, titles, ASCII art, and formatted plain-text documents. Multi-line input is supported and each line is centered independently in your browser.

⚙️ Centering options
Each line shorter than the line width is centered by adding balanced padding to the left and right using the chosen character. Lines already at or beyond the target width are left unchanged.

Center Text Tool

The Center Text Tool lets you center text online by adding balanced padding to both sides of every line until it sits exactly in the middle of a line width you choose. You can pad with plain spaces for invisible centering, or use a visible character like dots, dashes, or asterisks to create decorative headers and separators for plain-text documents.

⭐ What Does This Tool Do?

  • Centers every line of your text within a target line width
  • Adds balanced padding on the left and right so the original text sits in the middle
  • Supports any custom padding character, not just spaces—dots, dashes, equals signs, and more
  • Leaves lines that are already at or beyond the target width unchanged
  • Updates the centered output instantly as you type

🔎 How Line Centering Works

For each line, the tool calculates how many padding characters are needed to reach the target width, then splits that padding as evenly as possible between the left and right sides. If the total padding is odd, the extra character is added to the right side so the text remains visually balanced.

Example (line width = 20, padding = space):

Input:  Hello
Output:        Hello

Example (line width = 20, padding = "-"):

Input:  TITLE
Output: -------TITLE-------

⚙️ Options Explained

Line width: The total character width each line should be centered within, from 10 to 300 characters.

Padding character: The character used to fill the space around your text. Use a plain space for invisible centering, or a symbol like "*", "-", "=", or "." for decorative headers, section dividers, and ASCII-style banners.

⭐ Common Use Cases

  • Plain-text headers: Center titles in README files, log files, or terminal banners
  • ASCII art and dividers: Create decorative separators using repeated characters around centered labels
  • Code comments: Center section titles inside fixed-width comment blocks
  • Printable layouts: Center short lines of text for receipts, labels, or monospace documents

⚠️ Important Notes

  • Only one padding character is used at a time; if you type more than one character, only the first is applied
  • Lines already at or longer than the target width are left unchanged and are never shortened
  • All centering happens entirely in your browser; no text is uploaded to any server

This tool is also known as

  • text centering tool
  • center text generator
  • center ascii text
  • center text with dashes
  • pad text to center

Frequently Asked Questions

It pads every line of your text with a chosen character (space, dash, dot, etc.) so the original text sits balanced in the middle of a line width you specify, creating centered titles, headers, and decorative dividers.

The tool calculates the total padding needed to reach your target width, splits it as evenly as possible between the left and right sides, and adds any extra single character to the right side when the total is odd.

Yes. You can type any single character into the padding field, such as a dash (-), dot (.), asterisk (*), or equals sign (=), to create decorative centered headers and separators.

Lines that are already at or beyond the target width are left unchanged. The tool only adds padding to shorter lines; it never trims or shortens longer lines.

Yes. Every line in your input is centered independently, so you can paste multiple lines, paragraphs, or a whole list and each one will be centered to the same target width.

When using a plain space as the padding character, trailing spaces are added for correct centering but are not visually distinguishable in a textarea. Use a visible padding character like '-' or '.' if you want to see both sides clearly.

A common default is 80 characters, matching traditional terminal and document widths, but you can set any width between 10 and 300 characters to match your formatting needs.

A blank line shorter than the target width will be filled entirely with the padding character, since there is no text content to keep in the middle.

No. All centering happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Your text is never sent to a server, stored, or shared with anyone.

Yes. The centered output updates live as you type or paste text, and whenever you change the line width or padding character.

It's commonly used for centering titles in plain-text files, formatting ASCII banners, aligning short labels for receipts or logs, and creating visually balanced section dividers in code comments or documentation.

Yes, the Center Text Tool is completely free, with no sign-up, no usage limits, and no watermarks added to your output.

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