Strikethrough Text Generator
Crossed-out text that survives a paste into any plain field. Five stroke styles.
Type something above to see it in every style.
Two ways to cross text out
The horizontal stroke is the familiar one: a line drawn straight through the middle of each character, the same shape a word processor produces. The diagonal slash cuts across each character at an angle instead, which reads as heavier and is the better choice when you want the crossing-out to be unmistakable at small sizes.
Both work the same way underneath. A combining mark is added after each character and drawn on top of it, so the stroke is part of the text rather than formatting applied to it, and it survives being pasted into a field that offers no formatting at all.
Where crossed-out text is useful, and where it is not
It works well for a struck-out price, a corrected word left visible on purpose, or a completed item in a plain-text list. It works badly for anything long, because the stroke makes text noticeably harder to read, and it is the wrong tool for hiding text: the characters are still there and still copyable, so a struck-out word is a visual gesture rather than a redaction.
Note also that the character count roughly doubles, since each letter gains a mark. That matters wherever there is a length limit.
How it works, and the one catch
These styles are not fonts. Each one is a separate block of real Unicode characters, so the styled letters travel with the text itself rather than depending on formatting the destination has to support. That is why a copied result keeps its look in a profile, a message or a post that offers no formatting controls at all.
The catch is worth knowing before you use it anywhere important. A screen reader announces the underlying code points rather than the letters you meant, so bold written in styled characters can be read out as a string of symbol names or skipped entirely. Search engines index them poorly for the same reason. Use these for a display name, a bio flourish or a post that wants to stand out, and keep ordinary letters for anything a person needs to read straight through or a search engine needs to understand.
Support varies by device. Almost everything renders on current desktop and mobile systems, but older phones and some apps substitute a box for a character they do not carry. The styles nearest the top of the list are the most widely supported, so when a result matters, prefer those and check it once on the platform you are posting to.
Questions
What is the difference between the stroke and the slash?
The stroke is a horizontal line through the middle of each character, which is the conventional crossed-out look. The slash cuts diagonally and reads as heavier, which helps at small sizes. Both are combining marks and both behave identically when pasted.
Does this hide the text?
No. The characters are unchanged and remain fully copyable and searchable; only their appearance changes. Crossed-out text is a visual gesture, never a way to redact something.
Why does the stroke break at spaces?
Spaces are deliberately left unmarked, because a combining mark on a space produces a short floating stroke with no character under it, which looks wrong on most devices. Use non-breaking spaces in your input if you want an unbroken line.
Does it use more characters?
Yes, roughly twice as many, because each character gains one combining mark. That is worth remembering in a bio or anywhere else with a length limit.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. Everything runs inside your browser and this tool has no backend, so nothing you type is transmitted, logged or stored.
Related: Underline Text Generator and the full Unicode Text Converter. Everything else is on the all tools page.
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