Text Indenter
Add leading spaces or tabs to each line of your text. Perfect for indenting code, creating nested lists, or formatting data. Choose the indent type (spaces or tabs), set the amount, and decide whether to indent all lines or just the first. No signup, no uploads — it all happens right in your browser.
Why use this Text Indenter tool?
Manually adding spaces at the beginning of lines is slow and error‑prone. This tool does it automatically with perfect consistency, whether you need 2 spaces or 8 tabs. It's great for code formatting, creating outlines, or aligning data in a specific way.
- Space or tab indentation – choose your preferred indent character.
- Flexible count – set the exact number of spaces or tabs to add per line.
- Selective indentation – indent all lines, only the first line, or skip empty lines.
- Instant preview – output updates as you type or when you click Indent.
- 100% private – all processing is done locally; your text never leaves your device.
How to indent text (step‑by‑step)
1. Paste your lines
Drop the text you want to indent into the left box.
2. Set indent style
Pick spaces or tabs, and how many. For code, 2 or 4 spaces are common; for lists, maybe a single tab.
3. Choose target lines
Apply indent to all lines, or only the very first line. Enable "Skip empty lines" to keep blank lines clean.
4. Copy or download
The indented text appears on the right. Copy it to your clipboard or save as a .txt file.
Example: indenting a list
| Input | Indented with 4 spaces, all lines |
|---|---|
| First item Second item Third item | First item Second item Third item |
Common use cases
- Code formatting: Indent code blocks, functions, or JSON/XML data for better readability.
- Nested lists: Create multi‑level bullet points or outlines by applying successive indents.
- Data alignment: Add a fixed margin to text before pasting into a document or report.
- Email formatting: Indent quoted replies or nested thread levels.
Pro tips
- For a hanging indent (where the first line is flush and the rest are indented), you'd need to apply indentation twice with different settings — first indent all lines, then unindent the first line using a tool like Remove Extra Spaces combined with manual editing. We might add a hanging indent option in the future!
- The "Skip empty lines" option prevents extra whitespace on blank lines, which can be useful for code snippets.