Strikethrough Text Generator
Struck, underlined, slashed and overlined — using combining marks.
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Questions about what this tool does, which option to pick, or what it can and cannot handle.
The question you type here is sent to an AI provider to be answered — your files and whatever you put in the tool above are not, and the assistant cannot see them. Answers are generated and can be wrong. The tool itself is not guessing: it runs deterministic code on your device.
About the Strikethrough Text Generator
Everything else in this family swaps one letter for a different letter. This tool does something mechanically unrelated, and the difference explains most of its quirks.
A strikethrough here is not a formatting toggle. A combining mark is a character with no width of its own. It attaches to whatever precedes it and draws on top of it, which is how Unicode builds accented letters out of parts. The long stroke overlay is one of those marks, so putting it after every character in a phrase produces a continuous line through the whole thing. The same approach gives an underline, a diagonal slash, and a bar across the top.
Because the mark is applied per character, including the spaces, the line runs unbroken between words rather than stopping at each gap. That is what makes it read as a struck-out sentence instead of a row of struck-out words.
The consequences of it being a separate character are worth knowing. Your text doubles in length, since every visible letter is now two codepoints, which matters where a limit is counted in characters rather than in what you can see. Moving the cursor through it takes two presses per letter in some editors, and a single backspace may remove the line rather than the letter. And a few older renderers place the stroke badly, leaving it floating above or below where it should sit.
Screen readers ignore the marks entirely, so a struck-out passage is announced as though it were ordinary text — which means a reader relying on one has no idea you crossed it out. If the deletion carries meaning, say so in words as well.
How to use it
- 1Type or paste the passage you want crossed out.
- 2Choose a row: a line through the middle, an underline, a diagonal slash, or a bar across the top.
- 3Copy that row with the button beside it.
- 4Paste it anywhere plain text is accepted — a chat, a comment, a spreadsheet.
- 5Remember the character count roughly doubles, which matters against a posting limit.
Questions
- Why is my text twice as long as it looks?
- Because each visible character is now two: the letter, and the invisible mark drawn over it. Anything counting characters — a post limit, a database column, a form validator — counts both. Ten visible letters will be measured as twenty.
- Why does the line sit in the wrong place sometimes?
- Rendering combining marks well is genuinely hard, and support varies by platform and by typeface. Most modern systems position the stroke correctly across the middle of the glyph. Older Android builds and some monospace faces place it high, low, or offset to one side.
- Can I strike out text that is already styled?
- Yes. The mark attaches to whatever character precedes it, whether that is an ordinary letter or one of the substituted alphabets, so you can generate a bold phrase elsewhere on this site and run it through here. Support for the combination is patchier than for either part alone.
- Will backspace delete the whole character?
- It depends on the editor. Some treat the letter and its mark as one unit and remove both; others remove only the mark, so the second press is needed to remove the letter. Neither behaviour is wrong — they are different interpretations of what a character is.