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About this tool
Add copy-paste Unicode strikethrough marks to text for posts, bios and messages.
The Strikethrough Text Generator adds U+0336, the Unicode combining long stroke overlay, after every character you type, producing c̶r̶o̶s̶s̶e̶d̶-̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶e̶x̶t̶ that survives copy and paste into places with no formatting toolbar. Because the line is part of the characters themselves rather than HTML or markdown, it works in social bios, usernames, chat messages and comment boxes that strip styling. It is for anyone who wants a struck-through price, a crossed-out joke or a deliberately edited-looking line where the platform gives them no way to format text.
Open Strikethrough Text Generator on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Type or paste your text into the Text field, or click the Sample chip in the Examples row to load 'Hello World'.
The struck-through version appears in the Result panel as you type — there is no button to press. Your own characters are kept and a combining long stroke overlay (U+0336) is inserted after each one, so the line travels with the text as plain Unicode rather than as formatting.
Click Copy to put the result block on the clipboard — it includes the tool title and your Text line as well as the Result line, so trim it down to the struck characters before pasting into a bio, post or username — or Download to save that text as strikethrough-text-generator.txt. Reset restores the default 'Hello World' input.
The stroke is a combining character inside the string, so it survives copy and paste into fields that discard every kind of markup.
The overlay is applied across the whole input rather than to letters only, so the line runs unbroken instead of stopping at each space.
The struck version updates with each keystroke, so you can see exactly how it will render before you paste it somewhere public.
It uses a Unicode combining character — U+0336, the combining long stroke overlay — placed after each character so the font draws a line through it. The result is ordinary text data, which is why it pastes intact into fields that strip HTML and markdown.
Yes, and roughly double. Each visible character becomes two code points — the letter plus the combining stroke — so a 20-character phrase consumes about 40 characters of a bio or post limit. Keep struck text short in fields with tight caps.
In most modern apps and browsers, but rendering depends on the font. A few older systems and unusual fonts draw the overlay slightly offset or not at all, and some screen readers announce the combining marks awkwardly, so avoid it for information a reader must not miss.
No. An editor applies a formatting attribute to unchanged text, which the software can strip or search around; this changes the characters themselves. That is what makes it work in plain-text fields, but it also means search and copy-paste treat the result as different characters from the original word.