How to Use Add Line Breaks - Free Online Tool
Learn how to effectively use the Add Line Breaks tool to format text with line breaks at specified intervals
What is Add Line Breaks?
The Add Line Breaks tool inserts line breaks into your text at regular intervals based on characters, words, or sentences. It's useful for formatting long text, creating line-wrapped output, or preparing text for display.
How to Use
- Enter your text in the input area.
- Configure settings in the settings panel:
- Break Mode: Choose Characters, Words, or Sentences
- Characters Per Line: Number of characters before adding a break (when using character mode)
- Words Per Line: Number of words before adding a break (when using word mode)
- Preserve Existing: Keep existing line breaks in the text
- Trim Whitespace: Remove extra spaces when adding breaks
- View the formatted result with line breaks added according to your settings.
- See statistics showing how many line breaks were added.
Settings Explained
- Break Mode:
- Characters: Add breaks every N characters
- Words: Add breaks every N words
- Sentences: Add breaks after each sentence
- Characters Per Line: Maximum characters per line before adding a break (default: 80)
- Words Per Line: Maximum words per line before adding a break (default: 10)
- Preserve Existing: When enabled, existing line breaks are kept; when disabled, they're removed first
- Trim Whitespace: Remove trailing and extra spaces when adding breaks
Tips & Best Practices
- Use character mode (80 chars) for code formatting or fixed-width displays
- Use word mode for more natural text wrapping that respects word boundaries
- Use sentence mode for creating line-separated lists of sentences
- Enable "Preserve Existing" if you want to keep your original formatting
- Enable "Trim Whitespace" for cleaner output without extra spaces
- The tool shows statistics about how many breaks were added
Use Cases
- Code formatting: Format long lines to fit within column limits
- Email formatting: Wrap long paragraphs for better readability
- Social media: Create formatted text posts with line breaks
- Text display: Prepare text for fixed-width displays or terminals
- Data processing: Convert single-line text to multi-line format