Combining Strokes, Slash Overlays and Wrappers
To cross out a short plain-text phrase, start with Standard Strikethrough. Compare its horizontal mark with the two slash overlays below. The five wrappers only surround your words. For a document revision or a message editor that offers formatting, use that editor’s own controls instead.
Trying a Stroke on a Short Phrase
- Keep an ordinary copy of your draft, then enter a short phrase in Original text.
- Read the operation label and compare its complete output. Choose Standard for the horizontal stroke.
- Use the named Copy button, or select the output manually if copying fails.
- Paste into the intended field. Check the saved result before replacing your original.
Which Characters Are Added
Standard appends U+0336 after each complete non-whitespace grapheme cluster. Long Slash uses U+0338; Short Slash uses U+0337. These diagonal marks are not double horizontal lines. Spaces, tabs and physical line endings stay unchanged in these three outputs. Existing accents and joined sequences stay contiguous before the new mark, but its position depends on the font. Applying the effect again stacks marks.
The wrappers add their literal delimiters around the entire source, including a multiline source. They do not change its inner letters. Standard Strikethrough is also available in the Font Generator; this page puts stroke, slash and wrapper choices together.
Character names follow the Unicode 17 names list. Segmentation uses the browser’s data; see Unicode text segmentation. These references do not certify a receiving font or app.
A 1 in Every Operation
| Operation | Output |
|---|---|
| Standard Strikethrough | A̶ 1̶ |
| Long Slash Overlay | A̸ 1̸ |
| Short Slash Overlay | A̷ 1̷ |
| X Wrapper | ✗ A 1 ✗ |
| Bracket Wrapper | [ A 1 ] |
| Parenthesis Wrapper | ( A 1 ) |
| Dash Wrapper | - A 1 - |
| Slash Wrapper | / A 1 / |
For a meeting change, convert only Monday and place it after the ordinary label Old date:. Keep New date: Tuesday in ordinary text. The update then stays understandable even if the stroke is clipped or poorly announced.
Choosing a Method for the Editing Task
| Task | Starting point | Important difference |
|---|---|---|
| Short plain-text stroke trial | Standard Strikethrough | Adds a combining mark; test the receiving field. |
| Compare diagonal marks | Long or Short Slash Overlay | Changes the mark, not a measured stroke thickness. |
| Surround a phrase | A wrapper, or custom brackets | Leaves inner letters unchanged. |
| Discord message formatting | Native ~~text~~ notation | Formatting instructions, not the Unicode output above. |
| A document edit | The editor’s revision features | A decorative stroke carries no edit history. |
Discord documents its message notation. In HTML, del represents deletion; choose markup for the meaning of your edit rather than substituting decorated characters.
Limits of a Decorative Stroke
A successful Copy confirms a clipboard write, not field acceptance. Font placement, wrapping, search and speech can differ. Keep names, contact details and important instructions readable without a stroke. Browser textareas and clipboard paths may normalize line endings even when the helper preserves them.
Over 25,000 UTF-16 units or 5,000 grapheme clusters, unsupported controls or incomplete Unicode produce an error without shortened or stale results. Correct the editable input, choose Sample or Clear. Local counts are not a platform allowance.
Compare a short source such as café 1 before decorating a longer draft. Keep its accents. Mark only the old phrase, then state the replacement or Completed status in ordinary words. If you need marks below the letters instead, compare the Underline Text Generator.