Column Aligner - Format Tabular Text Online

Align text columns with custom delimiters and padding. Perfect for formatting code, data tables, and CSV files. Fast, private, browser-based alignment tool.

Input Text

Lines: 0 | Columns detected: 0

Delimiter

Custom Delimiter

Padding

Default Alignment

Respect quotes

Trim whitespace

Aligned Output

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Frequently Asked Questions

Space, tab, comma, pipe (|), semicolon, colon, and custom delimiters. You can also align code on assignment operators (=, :=, =>, etc.) for formatting source code.

The tool splits each line by your chosen delimiter, calculates the maximum width for each column, and pads entries to create evenly aligned columns. You can choose left, right, or center alignment per column.

Yes. Select 'Code Alignment (=)' mode to align variable assignments, object properties, and declarations on their equals signs. Supports =, :=, =>, and : operators.

Standard padding adds one space after delimiters. Extra padding adds more spaces for readability. Minimal padding uses no extra spaces. Compact mode removes all unnecessary whitespace.

Yes. All alignment processing happens in your browser using JavaScript. No text is uploaded to any server, ensuring complete privacy.

Yes. The tool preserves your chosen delimiter in the output. If you want to change delimiters (e.g., comma to pipe), select a different output delimiter option.

Enable 'Respect quotes' to treat quoted strings as single fields, even if they contain the delimiter character. This is essential for properly formatted CSV data.

Empty columns are preserved with appropriate spacing to maintain alignment. You can choose to collapse consecutive delimiters if you want to skip empty fields.

Yes. Use pipe (|) as the delimiter and enable 'Trim whitespace' to clean up markdown tables. The tool will properly align all columns for better readability.

The tool automatically calculates the maximum width needed for each column across all rows and pads shorter entries to match. You can also set custom column alignments.

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