How this instrument works
Strikethrough is normally something you'd apply as text formatting — highlight a word in a word processor and click the strikethrough button. That formatting lives in the document's markup, not in the text itself, so it vanishes the instant you copy the plain text somewhere else, like a chat message, a bio field, or a plain-text email.
This tool produces the same crossed-out look a different way: after every character in your input, it inserts U+0336 COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY, a Unicode character specifically designed to draw a horizontal line across whatever character comes before it. Because that line is part of the character sequence itself rather than applied formatting, the strikethrough travels with the text wherever you paste it — social media captions, usernames, chat apps, anywhere that accepts standard Unicode.
The overlay is applied after every character, including spaces, so the strike line renders as one continuous stroke across an entire phrase rather than breaking at each word gap. There's no coverage gap here the way there is with small caps or superscript — every character you type, letter, digit, punctuation, or space, gets the combining mark appended after it.
- Click into the text field and type or paste the text you want struck through.
- The strikethrough result appears immediately below as you type — there is no submit button to press.
- Copy the result directly from the readout, or use the Copy link button to save a permalink that reproduces this exact input.
- Paste the result anywhere that displays standard Unicode text — the strikethrough line is part of the characters, not separate formatting.
Striking through a full phrase, space and all
Type "SolveTutor Math Solver" and the tool returns "S̶o̶l̶v̶e̶T̶u̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶M̶a̶t̶h̶ ̶S̶o̶l̶v̶e̶r̶" — every letter, and both spaces between the three words, gets its own combining stroke mark appended right after it. That's why the line reads as one continuous stroke across the whole phrase instead of three separate struck-through words.
A short word shows the length change directly: "SALE" becomes "S̶A̶L̶E̶" — 4 input characters become 8 output characters, since each of the 4 letters is followed by its own copy of the combining mark. The minimal case is a single character: typing just "a" returns "a̶" — 1 input character becomes 2 output characters, the smallest possible demonstration of the same doubling rule.
Questions
Will this strikethrough text work on Instagram, Twitter/X, or Discord?
In most cases, yes. It's built from standard Unicode characters rather than rich-text formatting, so any platform that renders normal Unicode text in its bio, caption, or message field will display the strikethrough correctly. A small number of very restrictive input fields strip out combining characters, so it's worth testing a short paste in your target app before relying on it somewhere permanent.
Why does my struck-through text look thin or uneven in some fonts?
The strikethrough line comes from a Unicode combining character, U+0336, and different fonts and apps render it with slightly different thickness, vertical position, and spacing between characters. That's a rendering choice made by whatever font or app displays the text, not something this tool controls — the underlying character sequence is identical everywhere.
Why is the output text longer than what I typed?
Because a combining strikethrough character is inserted after every single character in your input, including spaces — the output is exactly double the character count of the input. That's what makes the strike line render continuously across a whole phrase instead of stopping and restarting at each word.
Is this the same as HTML's <s> or <del> strikethrough tag?
No. An HTML strikethrough tag is markup applied to plain text by whatever renders the page — it disappears if you copy the plain text out of the page. This tool instead embeds the strikethrough into the actual character sequence using a Unicode combining mark, so it keeps working in plain-text contexts where HTML tags don't apply at all, like a text message or a username field.
Is my text sent anywhere when I use this tool?
No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript — nothing you type is sent to a server, logged, or stored anywhere outside your own device (aside from the optional worksheet log, which saves to your browser's local storage only if you choose to keep it).