center-text

Center text horizontally

This was built as part of a CLI presentation to horizontally center text. As a result, this will properly center ANSI colored text.

It was not designed to work with non-monospaced text.

Getting Started

Install the module with: npm install center-text

// In an 40 column terminal
var centerText = require('center-text');
centerText('Hello World!');
// Returns '              Hello World!              ';

Documentation

center-text exposes a function, centerText, as its module.exports.

centerText(text, options)

Return string of centered text

• text String - Content to center
• options Object
  • columns Number - Amount of columns to center between. If not provided, process.stdout.columns will be used.
  • leftBias Boolean - If truthy, uneven offsets will pad to the right more than the left.
    • See Examples for more info

Examples

An example of leftBias in action:

centerText('aa', {
  columns: 3
});
// Returns ' aa'

centerText('aa', {
  columns: 3,
  leftBias: true
});
// Returns 'aa '

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint via grunt and test via npm test.

Donating

Support this project and others by twolfson via gittip.

Unlicense

As of Nov 30 2013, Todd Wolfson has released this repository and its contents to the public domain.

It has been released under the UNLICENSE.