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Tool usage guide
The Text Centerer is a precise utility designed to align your text strings by padding them with custom characters, ensuring a uniform and professional appearance for logs, console outputs, or formatted documents.
Background
A developer needs to print a clean header for a CLI application output.
Problem
The text looks messy and unaligned when printed directly to the console.
How to use
Input the header text, set the target length to 40, and use '=' as the fill character.
targetLength: 40, fillChar: '=', autoDetectLength: falseOutcome
The text is perfectly centered within a 40-character wide border of equals signs.
Background
An admin is compiling a list of server status messages with varying lengths.
Problem
The log file is difficult to scan because the status labels are not aligned.
How to use
Paste the list of status messages and enable 'Auto-Detect Max Length' to align them uniformly.
fillChar: ' ', autoDetectLength: true, trimSpaces: trueYes, you can specify any character, such as a dash, asterisk, or dot, in the Fill Character field.
The tool will return the original text as is, as it cannot shrink the content to fit a smaller target length.
When enabled, the tool identifies the longest line in your input and uses that as the reference length to center the shorter lines.
You can enable the 'Trim Leading/Trailing Spaces' option to clean your input before the centering process is applied.
No, this tool is intended for plain text formatting. It adds literal characters to your text, which is not suitable for web layout styling.
Outcome
All status messages are padded with spaces to match the length of the longest entry, creating a clean, vertical column.