Text Border Box
Wrap a piece of text in a neat box border drawn from characters.
Boxing text in
Drawing a border around text makes it stand out in any plain-text setting — a note in a code comment, a warning in a README, a header in a terminal message, a highlighted block in an email. This surrounds your text with a tidy frame built from box-drawing or ASCII characters, so an ordinary line becomes a boxed callout.
Paste your text and it comes back inside a border.
Keeping the box square
As with all character-drawn art, the box only lines up in a monospace font, where every character is the same width — in a proportional font the right-hand edge goes ragged. Different border styles, from simple dashes and pluses to smooth box-drawing lines, suit different places; the cleaner styles need broad character support to render, while the plain ASCII ones work virtually everywhere.
Text Border Box FAQ
Where can I use a text border?
In code comments, README files, terminal output or emails — anywhere plain text needs a box around it.
Why does the box look uneven somewhere?
It needs a monospace font. In a proportional font the characters no longer align and the edges go ragged.
Is my text uploaded?
No. The border is drawn in your browser.