Strikethrough Text Generator
Add a line through your text to copy and paste anywhere.
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Generate strikethrough text
Type above to draw a line through your text, then copy it with one click. Strikethrough is handy for showing edits, crossing out a price or making a joke, and this tool produces it even in places with no strikethrough button, like Instagram, Twitter or X and many chat apps.
How it works
A special combining line is added over each character, so the crossed-out look travels with the text as plain Unicode wherever you paste it.
How copied strikethrough text is made
The output is Unicode text, not an image and not HTML formatting, so it can be pasted into many plain-text fields.
Method
The tool appends Unicode U+0336 COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY after each non-space character.
output character = input character + U+0336
What copying preserves
The base letters and combining marks travel together as text. The receiving font and app decide how continuous or centered the stroke looks.
Limits
- Some apps, fonts, search fields, and usernames may remove or render combining marks differently.
- Screen readers may announce the underlying characters without conveying the visual strikethrough.
- For a web document, semantic del or s markup is usually better than decorative Unicode text.
- Unicode character names list for U+0336: Defines the combining long stroke overlay used for strikethrough.
Reviewed against the current calculator or processor on September 6, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
How does the crossing out work?
A combining strikethrough mark is added to each character, so the line is part of the text and survives copy and paste.
Will it work in plain-text fields?
Yes. Because it is Unicode, the strikethrough shows in bios, posts and chats that offer no formatting.