Strikethrough List Items

Want to mark items as completed or cancelled? This Strikethrough List Items tool adds professional strikethrough formatting to your text without any complex software. Perfect for creating completed task lists, cancelled items, or any text that needs the crossed-out effect. The tool supports multiple strikethrough formats including Unicode, Markdown, HTML, and custom line overlays.

How to Use:

1. Enter your list items into the Input Text area
   • Each line gets individual strikethrough formatting
   • Skip empty lines excludes blank entries from processing
   • Trim whitespace removes extra spaces around each item
2. Select strikethrough style from the radio options
   • Unicode creates real crossed-out characters that work everywhere
   • Markdown wraps text in ~~ for platforms supporting markdown
   • HTML adds proper <s> tags for web content
   • Custom line draws character lines through your text
3. Fine-tune appearance with toggle controls
   • Preserve spacing keeps original indentation and formatting
   • Add checkbox puts checked boxes before strikethrough items
   • Strike character sets what creates custom line overlays
4. Copy your formatted results with the Copy button
   • Output updates instantly as you modify settings
   • Export saves your strikethrough text as a file
   • Import loads existing files for batch processing

What Strikethrough List Items Can Do:

This tool excels at creating professional completed task lists and cancelled item displays. The Unicode strikethrough creates actual crossed-out characters that display correctly in emails, documents, and social media without any special formatting support.

Project managers use it to show completed milestones and cancelled deliverables. The checkbox addition creates perfect task completion lists that clearly show what’s been finished.

Professional Task Management:

The preserve spacing feature maintains your original list structure while adding strikethrough effects. Great for formatted documents where indentation and alignment matter. Meeting notes with completed action items stay properly organized.

Custom line strikethrough creates dramatic visual effects for cancelled or discontinued items. Use different characters like equals signs for strong emphasis or tildes for gentle cancellation marks.

Markdown mode outputs text ready for GitHub, Reddit, or any platform supporting markdown formatting. Write your task list once and get properly formatted strikethrough that works across different systems.

Content Creation Applications:

Social media managers create engaging before/after content showing completed challenges or finished projects. The Unicode strikethrough works perfectly in tweets, posts, and captions without platform restrictions.

Blog writers show progress updates with clearly marked completed items. Newsletter creators highlight finished features or cancelled plans in their updates.

Content creators make comparison lists showing what didn’t work versus what succeeded. The visual strikethrough immediately communicates completed or abandoned ideas.

Educational and Personal Uses:

Students track completed assignments and finished study topics. Teachers create progress charts showing covered material versus upcoming lessons. The checkbox feature makes it easy to see completion status at a glance.

Personal productivity enthusiasts maintain completion lists for goals, habits, and daily tasks. The tool makes it satisfying to visually cross off finished items while keeping them visible for reference.

Example:

Here’s how different strikethrough styles transform a task list:

Original:

Write project proposal
Review quarterly budget
Schedule client meeting
Update team database

Unicode strikethrough:

W̶r̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶j̶e̶c̶t̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶p̶o̶s̶a̶l̶
R̶e̶v̶i̶e̶w̶ ̶q̶u̶a̶r̶t̶e̶r̶l̶y̶ ̶b̶u̶d̶g̶e̶t̶
S̶c̶h̶e̶d̶u̶l̶e̶ ̶c̶l̶i̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶m̶e̶e̶t̶i̶n̶g̶
U̶p̶d̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶ ̶d̶a̶t̶a̶b̶a̶s̶e̶

Markdown format:

~~Write project proposal~~
~~Review quarterly budget~~
~~Schedule client meeting~~
~~Update team database~~

With checkboxes:

☑ ~~Write project proposal~~
☑ ~~Review quarterly budget~~
☑ ~~Schedule client meeting~~
☑ ~~Update team database~~

Strikethrough List Items Table:

This table shows how different strikethrough formats create crossed-out text effects:

Common Use Cases:

Project managers track completed deliverables and cancelled requirements in status reports and planning documents. Content creators show finished versus pending tasks in social media updates and blog progress posts. Students mark completed assignments and finished study topics in their academic planning lists. Event organizers cross out completed setup tasks and cancelled activities in their preparation checklists. Small business owners maintain completion lists for marketing campaigns, product launches, and operational improvements.