Text box & border generator

Put a neat frame around any text, drawn with line characters or plain ASCII, ready to paste into code comments, READMEs, terminal output and plain-text emails.

Your text

4 lines × 45 columns

╭───────────────────────────────────────────╮
│  Good morning!                            │
│  The toast is ready and the jam is open.  │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────╯

Border style

Side padding

Top & bottom padding

Text alignment

Left Centre Right

Wrap lines at

Comment markers

Title in the top border (optional)

Blank lines become dividers

Boxes that stay lined up

Widths are counted in monospace columns, so emoji and Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters, which take two columns each, still meet the right-hand border in a code editor or terminal.

Style: Single, Rounded, Double, Bold and Dashed use Unicode box-drawing characters (┌─┐). ASCII, Stars and Hash use only plain keyboard characters, so they work in any font and any old tool.
Padding adds spaces at the sides and empty lines above and below the text.
Wrap lines breaks long lines at spaces to keep the box narrow; 72 columns is a common limit for commit messages and plain-text email.
Title sits in the top border, and with dividers each blank line becomes a line across the box, handy for menus and headed notes.
Comment markers put //, #, -- or ; in front of every line, or wrap the whole box in /* */ or , so you can paste it straight into source code.

Questions about text boxes

Why is the right-hand border crooked after pasting?

The place you pasted into is not using a monospace font, or its font draws emoji at a different width. Paste into a code block, or take the emoji out.

Which style is the safest?

ASCII (+-+) works everywhere, including old terminals, config files and tools that only accept plain ASCII.

Can I put ASCII art inside a box?

Yes. Make a banner with the text to ASCII tool, paste it here, leave wrapping off and set the padding to taste.