Aligning text right before section title on same line

Question

I am trying align the text "Chapter" before the section title.

I've tried

\documentclass[chapterprefix=false]{scrreprt}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\chapterformat}{%
\mbox{\chapapp~\thechapter\autodot:\enskip}%
}

And much more got from another answers but it's not working for my issue.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[latin2]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{ulem}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{ {figures/} }
\usepackage{array}

This is what I want I am very new to latex. Please help me to solve this problem. Thank you in advance.

Welcome to TeX SX! What you want is not very clear. Could you post a small compilable example showing what your problem is? — Bernard, Apr 14 '18 at 18:42
@Bernard i have edited my question. Sorry for not showing the expected output before editing — Vaibhav Mandlik, Apr 14 '18 at 18:45
Do you use the scrreprt class? B.t.w. in the last code why do you load inputenc with option latin2, then utf8? This is inconsistent! — Bernard, Apr 14 '18 at 18:53
@Bernard actually I'm also not sure why i used it. I copied it for something. Can you please tell me what is the efficient way to have the output i want — Vaibhav Mandlik, Apr 15 '18 at 09:34
The vertical line in the image is a visualisation of the left margin? — Bernard, Apr 15 '18 at 09:45

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 15 '18 at 10:37

You can load titlesec and use this code in your preamble:

\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\chapter}[block]{\LARGE\bfseries\filright}{\chaptertitlename~\thechapter:}{0.5em}{}

Some explanations:

The first mandatory argument of \titleformat} is the section level.
The (first) optional argument is the shape used for this level (there are 9 shapes, the default is hang).
The second mandatory argument is the format to be applied to the whole title.
The third argument defines the label.
the fourth argument defines the spacing between label and title.
The fifth argument is code the title body.The very last command can take an argument, which is the title text.
A second optional argument (not used here), which can be used with some shapes, is for code following the title body.

Thakn you so much buddy. I got the same solution just before a minute in https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82235/adding-text-to-the-section-numbering. This solution is working in very efficient way than others i was trying. +1 for your support. Thank you so much — Vaibhav Mandlik, Apr 15 '18 at 11:06

Aligning text right before section title on same line

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