Convert Tabs to Spaces

The Tabs to Spaces tool replaces all tab characters in your text with a specified number of spaces. This is useful for reformatting code, cleaning text, or standardizing indentation across files.

How to Use the Tool:

1. Paste or type your text into the Input Text box.
2. Set how many spaces each tab should be replaced with in the Spaces per tab field. The default is 4.
3. Click Convert Tabs to replace all tab characters (\t) with the selected number of spaces.
4. The converted text will appear in the Converted Output box.
5. Click Copy Output to copy the result to your clipboard.
6. Click Clear All to reset the input, output, and tab size.

Example:

Input:

Line	with	tabs
	Indented	line

Spaces per tab:

2

Output:

Line  with  tabs
  Indented  line

Common Use Cases:

The Tabs to Spaces Tool quickly replaces tab characters with a specified number of spaces. It’s ideal for reformatting code, aligning text for consistent indentation, preparing files for systems that don’t support tabs, cleaning up pasted data, and ensuring uniform spacing across documents and text files.

Useful Tools & Suggestions:

Once you’ve switched tabs to spaces, Normalize Text Spacing helps make sure everything lines up cleanly especially if the original file had inconsistent tab widths. And if you need to undo the change later, Convert Spaces to Tabs gives you a quick way to flip it back.