Add Line Numbers

How to use the Add Line Numbers

1. Paste the text you want to number.
2. Choose what follows each number and where counting starts.
3. Skip blank lines or line up the numbers if you like.
4. Copy the numbered text or save it.

Examples

Oat milk
Apples
Rice
Coffee beans

function total(items) {
  let sum = 0;
  for (const i of items) sum += i.price;
  return sum;
}

console.log(total(cart));



// end

Preheat the oven

Mix the dry ingredients

Fold in the eggs

About this tool

Line numbers make text easy to refer to: "see line 14" in a code review, a numbered list of steps, questions on a worksheet, or verses and paragraphs in a document you are discussing. This tool adds them to any text in one go, leaving the lines themselves untouched.

You choose how numbers look. Follow them with a full stop, bracket, colon, bar, tab or space; start from any number and count by any step; and add text in front, such as "Step" or "Q". Blank lines can be skipped so paragraphs separated by empty lines are numbered without gaps.

For code and long lists, line the numbers up with spaces or leading zeros so that line 9 and line 10 keep the text in a neat column. Choose the tab separator when pasting into a spreadsheet: the numbers land in one column and the text in the next.