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title: "Text Box & Border Generator for Comments | Toast Unicorn"
description: "Wrap text in single, rounded, double, bold or ASCII boxes for code comments and READMEs, with padding, alignment, titles, wrapping and comment markers."
url: https://toastunicorn.lol/text-box-borders/
---

# 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.

## 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.

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## 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.