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ASCII Text Box Generator

Draw an ASCII box around your text for comments and READMEs.

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What is a text box generator?

Feed in one or more lines and get them back framed in Unicode box-drawing characters (┌─┐│└┘), each line padded with spaces to match the widest, so the right border stays flush. The frame only aligns in monospace, which is exactly where it belongs: code comments, terminal banners and fenced README blocks. Multi-line input produces one box around the whole block.

How to use the Text Box Generator

  1. 1 Write the label or note to be framed, one or more lines.
  2. 2 A box appears around it, sized to the longest line.
  3. 3 Add lines to grow the box downward; padding stays aligned.
  4. 4 Paste the frame into a comment block or terminal script.

What you can use it for

  • Framing section headers in code comments.
  • Calling out notes in a README or text file.
  • Building banners for CLI output.
  • Making ASCII labels and callouts.

Frequently asked questions

Does it handle multiple lines?
Yes. Shorter lines are space-padded to the widest one before the border is drawn, so a ragged block still gets a rectangular frame.
What characters make up the box?
Unicode box-drawing glyphs: ┌ ┐ └ ┘ corners, ─ horizontals and │ verticals. Editors, terminals and Markdown code fences all render them cleanly.
Is the boxed text monospaced?
It needs to be. In a proportional font the padding spaces shrink and the verticals drift, so keep the box inside code blocks or terminal output.

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