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Strikethrough Text
Add a line through text that survives being pasted.
Screen readers ignore these marks and read the text as normal, so never let strikethrough be the only signal that something is cancelled.
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The second line is monospaced, where the segments meet evenly.
Quick Tool Overview
Strikethrough Text uses Unicode combining marks so the line is part of the characters rather than formatting applied to them — which is why it survives being pasted anywhere. Three stroke variants are offered because they render differently across devices.
- What it does
- Draws a line through text using combining marks
- You give it
- The text to cross out
- You get back
- Struck-through text that survives pasting
- Best for
- Chat, plain text fields and social posts
About the Strikethrough Text
Strikethrough is normally formatting, and formatting disappears the moment text is pasted into a field that does not support it. The Unicode approach survives, because the line is part of the characters rather than applied to them.
It works with combining marks: a zero-width character that draws a line through the character before it. Three variants are available — a long stroke, a short stroke and a slash — and they render slightly differently across devices, which is why all three are offered. The result pastes into any plain text field and keeps its line. It is worth knowing that screen readers ignore the marks entirely and read the text as though it were not struck through, so never use it as the only signal that something is cancelled.
Key features of the Strikethrough Text
Three stroke styles
Long, short and slash, since device fonts draw each of them differently.
Survives pasting
The line is part of the text, so it does not disappear the way formatting does.
Explains the uneven look
Why proportional fonts leave gaps in the line and monospaced ones do not.
Accessibility warning
Screen readers ignore the marks entirely, so never let strikethrough be the only signal.
Reversible
The marks strip cleanly, leaving the original text intact.
How to use the Strikethrough Text
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Type your text
The text you want crossed out.
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Choose the stroke style
Long, short or slash — they render differently across devices.
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Preview it
Check how it looks on your own device before publishing.
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Copy and paste it
The line travels with the text into any plain field.
Frequently asked questions
A combining long stroke overlay (U+0336) is inserted after each character. It has no width of its own and draws a line through the character it attaches to, so the effect is part of the text rather than formatting applied to it.
Because the stroke is drawn per character and its length is set by the font. In a proportional font the segments do not always meet, particularly around spaces and narrow letters. A monospaced font renders it much more evenly.
No. The combining marks are usually ignored, so the text is read as normal. Never rely on strikethrough alone to indicate that something is cancelled or superseded.
The combining marks can be stripped with the Remove Accents tool, which removes all combining characters and leaves the base text intact.
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