Strikethrough and Underline Text Generator
Cross out or underline words in places that only take plain text, such as social posts, chat messages and profile fields. The generator adds a Unicode combining mark after every character, so the line travels with the text when you copy and paste it.
Add Strikethrough or Underline to Text
Screen readers may read these styled characters badly, letter by letter, as maths symbols or not at all, and search engines may not match them. Do not use them for names, important information or whole posts.
Marked versions
How to Use the Strikethrough Text
- Type or paste your text.
- Choose whether spaces should be marked too.
- Press Copy next to the style you want: strikethrough, short stroke, slash, underline, double underline, overline, tilde below or x above.
About This Tool
People who want to show a corrected price, a crossed-out word for effect, or a quick underline in an app without formatting buttons.
Input: Plain text · Output: Text with combining marks.
Features and Limitations
Features
- Eight styles made with standard combining marks (U+0336, U+0335, U+0338, U+0332, U+0333, U+0305, U+0330, U+033D).
- Marks each visible character (grapheme), so accented letters and emoji are not split apart.
- Line breaks are kept and never marked.
- Option to skip spaces for a dashed look.
Limitations
- The look depends on the font: in some apps the line is broken between letters or drawn in the wrong place.
- Screen readers may ignore the marks (so readers will not know the text is crossed out) or read each mark aloud.
- Each mark is an extra character, so a styled word counts as twice as long against character limits.
- Results are computed in your browser; nothing you enter is sent to a server.
Example
“old” with strikethrough becomes o̶l̶d̶ (6 characters: three letters and three U+0336 marks).
Frequently Asked Questions
How does this work without formatting?
Unicode has combining characters that draw on top of the previous character. Adding a long stroke overlay (U+0336) after each letter draws a line through the word.
Why does the line look broken on my phone?
Fonts position combining marks differently. Try the short stroke or the slash style, or check how it looks in the app you will use.
Does it count against my character limit?
Yes, each mark is one more character. A 10-letter word with strikethrough uses 20 characters.
Is crossed-out text accessible?
Not reliably. Screen readers usually ignore the marks, so a reader hears the words without knowing they are struck out. Say “was 20, now 15” in plain words when the meaning matters.
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