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Indent Text
Add indentation to every line, in spaces or tabs.
Quick Tool Overview
Indent Text adds indentation to a whole block at once, in spaces or tabs, which is a two-second job in a code editor and a chore in a web form or a chat box. Existing indentation is added to rather than replaced, so nesting is preserved.
- What it does
- Adds indentation to every line
- You give it
- A code block, quote or configuration fragment
- You get back
- The block indented, with nesting intact
- Best for
- Pasting blocks into a structure in a plain text field
About the Indent Text
Indenting a whole block is a two-second job in a code editor and a genuine chore anywhere else — a web form, a CMS, a chat box, a comment field. Doing it by hand means clicking to the start of every line.
This indents the whole block at once, in spaces or tabs, by whatever amount you set. The first line can be skipped, which is what you need when a block is being pasted after something already on that line. Blank lines can be left genuinely empty rather than filled with whitespace, which keeps a diff clean. Existing indentation is added to rather than replaced, so nesting is preserved.
Key features of the Indent Text
Spaces or tabs
Match whatever the destination file uses, since mixing the two is what makes indentation look wrong elsewhere.
Skip the first line
For a block being pasted after content already on that line, which is the common insertion case.
Blank lines left empty
No trailing whitespace on empty lines, which linters flag and diffs highlight.
Nesting preserved
Existing indentation is added to, so an already-nested block stays nested.
Any amount
One space or twelve, one tab or three — set it once for the whole block.
How to use the Indent Text
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Paste your text
A code block, a quote, a config fragment or any set of lines.
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2
Set the amount
How many spaces, or how many tabs, to add to the start of each line.
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3
Choose what to skip
Skip the first line when pasting after existing content, and leave blank lines genuinely empty.
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4
Copy the indented block
Existing nesting is preserved, since the indentation is added to rather than replacing it.
Frequently asked questions
Follow whatever the file already uses — mixing them is what causes indentation to look wrong in one editor and right in another. Python, YAML and most style guides specify spaces; Go and Makefiles require tabs.
Because a block being pasted after existing content on the same line does not need its own indentation there. It is the common case when inserting into a structure that is already open.
Not by default. A blank line filled with spaces shows up as trailing whitespace in a diff and is flagged by most linters, so it is left genuinely empty.
No, it adds to it. A block that is already nested stays nested, with your amount added on top — which is what indenting a block inside another structure means.
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