Strikethrough Text Generator

A strikethrough text generator attaches combining long stroke, short stroke, solidus, or underline marks to each letter in your input. The base characters stay the same while a line appears through or under them. This works in plain text fields where bold or markdown strikethrough is not available on the platform you use.

This is not markdown. Tilde wrappers need a renderer. Combining marks ride on normal letters as real Unicode code points you copy like any other text. Discord may accept both in the same channel. An Instagram caption usually keeps only the Unicode version because there is no markdown pass on save.

Example: typing done with long stroke selected produces d̶o̶n̶e̶, four base letters each followed by U+0336 COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY. Screen readers may announce both the letter and the mark, which sounds odd. Do not use Unicode strikethrough for critical accessibility content when markdown strikethrough is available instead.

Type the phrase you want to cross out, pick a strike style from the mode selector, preview how the combining marks sit on each letter, then copy. Spaces stay unmarked so the line does not turn into one unreadable blob. Paste into chat, a bio, or a caption and confirm the stroke survives on your phone before you post a spoiler publicly.

1. Type visible text into the input box. The demo fills it with `done` if you want to see long stroke marks on a short word immediately.
2. Choose a mode: Long Stroke for classic cross-out, Solidus for a diagonal slash, Short Stroke for a tight line, Strike + Underline for stacked drama, or Underline only.
3. Preview how each letter carries its combining mark. Unmarked spaces keep word boundaries clear.
4. Click Copy to place the crossed-out Unicode string on your clipboard.
5. Paste into your target field, save or send, and reopen the message on a second device if the platform might strip marks.

Long stroke is the default cross-out for spoilers and joke corrections. Solidus reads sharper on dark backgrounds. Short stroke fits tight nickname columns. Strike plus underline stacks two marks and fails more paste filters. Underline only works when you want emphasis without crossing the word out. Pick the lightest style that still reads on your target app.

Unicode strikethrough survives in fields that store full UTF-8 and skip aggressive normalization: chat messages, many captions, and note apps that render combining marks inline. It fails when clients strip marks for accessibility or layout. Markdown strikethrough is cleaner on platforms that support it. Unicode is the portable fallback when the field has no formatter at all.

Markdown needs a renderer. Unicode rides on every letter.

Unicode strikethrough works in plain text boxes with no formatting toolbar. Markdown strikethrough needs a surface that parses tildes, such as Discord markdown mode or GitHub comments. Unicode crosses letters anywhere text is accepted. Markdown is cleaner for screen readers when the platform supports it. Copy-paste portable Unicode shows strokes in bios; unsupported markdown shows raw tildes.

Strike plus underline mode stacks two marks per character. That looks dramatic but can fail on apps that limit combining mark depth. If lines disappear after paste, step down to long stroke or short stroke before you assume the platform blocks all strikethrough. The clipboard holds real code points. The server keeps whatever passed validation.