Text Word Wrapper

Automatically wrap text lines at a specified character width.

Input

Output

Options

Max width (characters)

Examples

Long text

This is a very long line of text that should be wrapped at the specified width to make it more readable and suitable for various display contexts.

Understanding Word Wrapping

Word wrapping breaks long lines of text into multiple lines at a specified character width, ensuring no line exceeds the limit. Wrapping respects word boundaries, placing breaks at spaces rather than mid-word, maintaining readability. For example, a 40-character limit wraps long sentences into shorter lines.

Hard wrapping inserts actual line breaks into text, creating fixed-width output. Soft wrapping adds breaks for display only, preserving original text structure. This tool typically provides hard wrapping, embedding line breaks into the text itself.

Wrapping improves readability in constrained environments. Email clients, terminal windows, README files, and plain text documents often have width limits. Wrapping ensures text fits within these constraints without horizontal scrolling or awkward line breaks.

Browser-based wrapping operates locally without server uploads. Users can format text privately, useful for email drafts, documentation, or code comments without sharing content with external services.

Practical Applications

Email composition benefits from word wrapping. Plain text emails should wrap at 72-80 characters for compatibility across email clients and devices. This tool formats email content to standard widths, improving deliverability and readability.

README files and documentation use wrapping for readability. Markdown READMEs, plain text docs, and code comments wrap at 80-100 characters for comfortable reading without scrolling. This tool prepares documentation with consistent line lengths.

Code comments and docstrings employ wrapping. Many coding standards limit comment line length (e.g., 80 characters). This tool wraps long comments, ensuring compliance with style guides and improving code readability in editors.

Terminal and CLI output formatting uses wrapping. Command-line tools often wrap output to terminal width for clean display. This tool prepares text for CLI presentation, ensuring output fits standard terminal sizes (typically 80 characters).

Challenges and Limitations

Long words may exceed width limits. Words longer than the wrapping width cannot be broken without hyphenation or mid-word breaks. This tool may place such words on their own line, exceeding the limit, or require hyphenation logic.

Paragraph structure requires preservation. Blank lines separating paragraphs should remain, while lines within paragraphs wrap. Users must configure wrapping to respect paragraph boundaries for correct formatting.

Different wrapping widths suit different purposes. Email uses 72-80 characters, code uses 80-120, and general text varies. Users must choose appropriate widths based on the target medium and audience.

Markdown and formatted text may break. Wrapping Markdown code blocks, tables, or formatted sections can corrupt formatting. Users should apply wrapping selectively to plain text sections, avoiding formatted markup.

Best Practices

Use standard widths for common formats. Wrap email at 72 characters, code comments at 80, and general documentation at 100. Following conventions ensures compatibility and readability across platforms.

Preserve paragraph breaks when wrapping. Configure wrapping to treat blank lines as paragraph separators, wrapping within paragraphs but not joining separate sections. This maintains document structure.

Avoid wrapping formatted or structured content. Do not wrap code blocks, tables, URLs, or markup. Wrapping should apply to plain text prose only, preserving special formatting.

Test wrapped output in target environments. Verify that wrapped text displays correctly in email clients, terminals, or documentation renderers. Validation ensures that wrapping achieves intended readability improvements.

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Word Wrapper - Wrap Long Lines at Specified Width

Automatically wrap text lines at a specified character width.

Break long text lines into multiple lines at a specified maximum width, respecting word boundaries. Perfect for formatting email content, code comments, README files, or terminal output. Choose hard or soft wrapping and preserve paragraph breaks for clean, readable results.

Keywords

#word wrap#text wrapper#line break tool#text formatter#column width#text reflow

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Text Word Wrapper

Automatically wrap text lines at a specified character width.

Input

Output

Options

Max width (characters)

Examples

Long text

This is a very long line of text that should be wrapped at the specified width to make it more readable and suitable for various display contexts.

Understanding Word Wrapping

Practical Applications

Challenges and Limitations

Best Practices

Avoid wrapping formatted or structured content. Do not wrap code blocks, tables, URLs, or markup. Wrapping should apply to plain text prose only, preserving special formatting.

Word Wrapper - Wrap Long Lines at Specified Width