Wrap Text

Wrap long lines of text at a specified column width for use in emails, code, terminals, or documents.

What is a Wrap Text?

A text wrapper inserts line breaks at word boundaries to ensure no line exceeds a specified character width.

Hard-wrapped text is required in many contexts: plain-text email clients, terminal output, README files, code comments, and legacy systems that do not perform soft wrapping. The standard email line length is 72-78 characters. Most code style guides wrap comments at 80 columns. This tool handles word-boundary wrapping instantly.

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Column width:characters

How to Use Wrap Text

  1. 1Paste your text into the input area.
  2. 2Set the column width (default: 80 characters).
  3. 3Choose whether to preserve existing line breaks.
  4. 4Click 'Wrap Text' and copy the result.

Features

  • Wraps at word boundaries only (no mid-word breaks)
  • Configurable column width (20-500 characters)
  • Option to preserve or reflow existing line breaks
  • Runs entirely in your browser

Common Use Cases

Plain-text email formatting

A developer sending a plain-text email wraps their message at 72 characters to prevent clients like Outlook from reflowing or adding line breaks in unexpected places.

Code comment formatting

A programmer wraps a long JSDoc comment block at 80 characters to match the project's code style guide before committing.

Terminal and CLI output

A sysadmin wraps a long status message at 80 columns before displaying it in a shell script that runs in a fixed-width terminal.

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