Wrap Text at a Maximum Width: No Upload

How it works

Paste your text

Type or paste the text in the left box, or open a .txt file. No text to hand? Click Example.

Instant result

The result appears as you type. Change the options and see straight away what changes.

Copy or download

Copy the result with one click, save it as a file or use it as input for a next step.

Example

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog and keeps running far away. at a width of 30 becomes three lines: The quick brown fox jumps over, the lazy dog and keeps running and far away. The note says that 2 extra lines were made.

Typical widths

Use	Characters per line
Git commit message body	72
Plain-text e-mail	72 to 78
Code and comments	80 to 100
Terminal output	80

Options

Maximum per line: from 5 to 1,000 characters.
Break words that are longer than a line: on by default, so a very long URL or word does not run past the limit.

Lines that are already short are left alone, and existing line breaks are kept, so paragraphs stay as they were.

For the opposite, putting a paragraph back on one line, use remove line breaks or join lines. To cut after an exact number of characters, even inside words, use split text.

Frequently asked questions

Which width should I choose?

72 characters for commit messages and plain-text e-mail, 80 for code and terminals, and 40 for narrow displays. The default is 40.

Are words ever cut in half?

Only when a single word is longer than the width, and then only if *Break words that are longer than a line* is ticked. Otherwise the long word keeps a line of its own.

Does it join short lines?

No. Lines that are already within the limit stay as they are. To join broken lines into paragraphs, use [remove line breaks](/en/text/remove-line-breaks).

How is the line length counted?

In visible characters, so an accented letter or an emoji counts as one.

Wrap text at a maximum line length