Wrap Text

What Wrap Text helps you do

Word-wrap each line so it does not exceed a maximum character width, inserting breaks at word boundaries. Useful for fitting text into fixed-width output such as terminals, code comments or email bodies. A word longer than the width is split into chunks rather than breaking the limit.

Wrapping is done in your browser. No text leaves your device.

How it works

Each cleanup tool applies one deterministic string transformation to the pasted text inside the page. There is no parser, model or server call: the same input and options produce the same output every time. The browser holds the text in memory, so the result updates as you edit and is not retained after the tab closes. Because the transformation is literal, non-breaking spaces, mixed line endings and tabs may behave differently from a word processor; compare a short sample before applying it to a large file. The page never rewrites the source on disk, so the only undo is your own copy.

How to use Wrap Text

1. Paste the text and set the maximum line width.
2. Wrap the text so long lines break at spaces.
3. Check the first few lines for an accidental break in a URL or code span.
4. Copy the wrapped result.

When to use it

• Format a paragraph to a 72-character width for email or console output.
• Prepare a block of text for a fixed-width report.
• Keep lines short enough for a diff or code review.
• Wrap a commit message body to a conventional width.
• Fit copy into a terminal or a plain-text README.
• Prepare text for an environment that truncates long lines.

When not to use it

• Do not use it on code where wrapping changes syntax.
• Do not use it on URLs or hashes that cannot contain spaces.
• Do not expect wrapping to reflow a whole document into balanced lines.

Example

Wrapping a 120-character sentence at 40 characters produces three lines that each stay within the limit at word boundaries. A long URL with no spaces is split into chunks at the width, which can break a link. Existing line breaks are treated as starting points rather than being removed first.

What you can do with Wrap Text

• Wrap each line to a width from 8 to 500 characters.
• Break at spaces rather than mid-word when possible.
• Split an overlong word that has no spaces.
• Keep existing line breaks as starting points.
• Copy the wrapped text.
• Run the wrapping locally with no upload.

Example: verify the cleanup on a sample

Paste a short, representative sample first rather than the whole file. Check the edges: leading and trailing spaces, blank lines, tabs and any non-breaking spaces the source may contain.

Apply the transformation and compare the sample with the original. If the change is correct, run the full text; if not, adjust the source or choose a different cleanup tool.

Copy or download the result and keep the original until the destination import succeeds. Most of these tools are one-way, so the source file is the only reliable undo.

If the text came from a PDF, a spreadsheet or a CMS, look for invisible characters before blaming the cleanup. A no-break space or a soft hyphen can survive the pass and still break a comparison downstream.

Run the cleaned text through the destination's preview or import step before deleting anything. A formatting change that looks right in the textarea can still fail a strict parser.

What to know before you start

• Long words with no spaces cannot be broken and may still exceed the width without chunking; the tool chunks them.
• Wrapping is by character count, not visual width, so wide glyphs can still overflow.
• It preserves existing line breaks instead of reflowing the whole text.
• It does not hyphenate words.

Common mistakes

• Wrapping code and changing its meaning.
• Splitting a URL or a token in the middle.
• Using a width that is too narrow for the content and producing many short lines.
• Expecting the tool to join existing lines before wrapping.
• Forgetting that visual width differs from character count for wide glyphs.

Troubleshooting

If a word breaks in the middle, it was longer than the width; widen the limit or edit the word.

If a line exceeds the width, it may contain a wide character or an unbreakable token.

If existing lines look uneven, the source already had breaks; join them first if you need a full reflow.

If a link is broken, keep the original or wrap at a wider width.

Related standards and documentation

• Unicode whitespace includes characters such as the no-break space that may not look like a space.
• Line endings may be CRLF, LF or CR before cleanup; normalize them first when the target requires one style.
• The tools operate on Unicode text, not on bytes in a legacy encoding.