Strikethrough Text Generator
The strikethrough text generator draws a line through your letters using a combining Unicode mark, producing crossed-out text you can paste into chats and posts that have no strikethrough button. Use it to show a price that has been cut, a deleted thought left visible for effect, or a joke where the crossed-out word is the punchline.
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Strikethrough Text Generator guide
How strikethrough text is built
A strikethrough is a horizontal line drawn through the middle of text. On the web that line is usually a style applied by the page, which most social apps and chat boxes do not let you control. This generator produces strikethrough a different way: it places a combining long stroke overlay, a special Unicode mark, after each character. The font then draws that mark across the letter it follows, so the visible result is a line straight through your words. Because the stroke is part of the character sequence, the effect travels with the text when you copy and paste it.
That portability is the point. You can cross out a word in an Instagram caption, a tweet, a Discord message, a Reddit comment, or a note, even though none of those fields offer a strikethrough button. The same approach powers the underline option, which uses a combining underline mark instead of the stroke.
When a crossed-out word says more than a plain one
Strikethrough carries a specific meaning: this was here, and now it is not, but I want you to see that it changed. That makes it perfect for showing a slashed price next to a new one, for marking a completed item on a public to-do list, or for the very common online joke where you cross out your honest first thought and replace it with a polite second one. The humour and the honesty both come from leaving the original visible rather than deleting it.
It also works for corrections you want to acknowledge openly, an edited claim, a retracted figure, a changed plan, so readers can see your thinking rather than a silent rewrite. Used sparingly, it adds a layer of meaning that plain text cannot. Used on long passages it becomes hard to read, so keep it to the word or short phrase that carries the contrast.
Rendering quirks to expect
Combining marks depend on the rendering engine to position the stroke correctly. On most modern phones and browsers the line sits neatly through each letter, but on some older systems, in certain monospaced code fonts, or with unusual character widths, the stroke can drift slightly or break between characters. Spaces are left unstruck so word gaps stay clean, and line breaks are preserved so multi-line text keeps its shape.
Because a strikethrough character is technically a letter plus an added mark, copying it adds invisible characters to the string; that is normal and is what makes the effect portable, but it means a crossed-out word is longer in character count than it looks. Screen readers may read the underlying letters and ignore the stroke, so the crossed-out meaning is visual only, do not rely on it to convey something a non-sighted reader must catch. Everything runs locally in your browser with no upload, no account, and no limit on how much you convert.
Where strikethrough is accepted and where it is stripped
Some apps let you produce strikethrough with their own markup, Discord uses two tildes around a word, and a few editors have a button, but those only work inside that one app and vanish when you copy the text elsewhere. The combining-mark approach used here is different: it lives in the characters themselves, so it travels into Instagram captions, X posts, profile bios, and notes that have no strikethrough feature at all. That portability is the whole reason to use Unicode strikethrough rather than an app's built-in version.
A handful of platforms sanitise combining marks out of certain fields, especially usernames and some form inputs, so the line can disappear in those specific places. The fix is simple: test the exact field before you rely on it, and keep a plain version ready as a fallback. For captions, comments, and posts, where the effect is most useful and most often wanted, combining strikethrough is widely supported and pastes through cleanly.