How to Use Indent / Unindent Text - Free Online Tool
Learn how to effectively use the Indent / Unindent Text tool to add or remove indentation from text with customizable spacing options
What is Indent / Unindent Text?
The Indent / Unindent Text tool allows you to add or remove indentation from your text. Indentation is essential for code formatting, document structure, and readability. This tool supports both spaces and tabs for indentation, provides bulk indentation operations, and offers fine-grained control over indentation levels.
Indentation Features
The tool provides comprehensive indentation options:
- Increase Indent: Add indentation to selected lines or entire text
- Decrease Indent: Remove indentation from lines
- Indent Type: Use spaces or tabs for indentation
- Indent Size: Configure number of spaces per indent level (2, 4, 8, etc.)
- Smart Indent: Preserve relative indentation levels
- Bulk Operations: Indent or unindent multiple lines at once
- Empty Line Handling: Include or skip empty lines
How to Use
- Enter or paste your text in the input area
- Select indentation operation:
- Indent: Add indentation to all lines or selected lines
- Unindent: Remove indentation from lines
- Auto-indent: Smart indentation based on content structure
- Configure indentation settings:
- Type: Choose spaces (recommended for most code) or tabs
- Size: Set indent size (2 spaces for Python, 4 for many languages, etc.)
- Level: Number of indent levels to add/remove
- Preserve: Maintain existing indentation relative to other lines
- Empty Lines: Indent empty lines or leave them unchanged
- Select specific lines (optional) or apply to entire text
- Click Indent or Unindent to apply changes
- Review and copy the formatted text
Use Cases
- Format code blocks with consistent indentation
- Adjust indentation in configuration files
- Prepare text for documentation or tutorials
- Fix indentation issues in code
- Create nested structures in text files
- Format JSON, YAML, or XML content
- Prepare code snippets for sharing