StringpadBoth Method

Syntax

Arguments

targetLengthnumber

The desired length of the string.

paddingStringpaddingString

The string to use as padding for adding characters to the string when the string is shorter then the target length. A space is used by default.

Returns

valuestring

The new padded string.

Description

Extension to the native string variable to support padding both sides of a string equally - a combination of the native String.padStart and String.padEnd methods. By default the separators are white-space and punctuation characters.

Example

var str = 'MA';
var str2 = str.padBoth(10);
// str2 = '    MA    '
str2 = str.padBoth(10,'-');
// str2 = '----MA----'