Input
Name Role Alice Editor
Format & transform
Convert Tabs to Spaces
Replace each tab character with a consistent number of spaces. Choose one to eight spaces per tab for code snippets, plain text, data exports, and editors that do not display tabs consistently.
Focused workspace
Tabs to Spaces
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Before and after
Tabs to Spaces Example
Output
Name Role Alice Editor
Three steps
How to use this tool
- Paste text containing tabs.
- Choose the number of spaces for each tab.
- Convert and copy the result.
Useful workflows
Common use cases
- Normalize code and configuration snippets.
- Prepare tabbed text for systems that require spaces.
- Make indentation display consistently.
How it works
Fast text processing without an upload
The selected operations are applied in order by JavaScript running on this page. The input is not sent to the Go server and is not written to SQLite. The server provides the page, SEO content, and blog system; the browser performs the text transformation.
Questions
Tabs to Spaces FAQ
Does it understand tab stops?
It performs literal replacement rather than column-aware tab-stop alignment.
Are line breaks preserved?
Yes.
Can spaces be converted back to tabs?
Use the related Spaces to Tabs tool.