Text To Slug

What is the Text To Slug?

The Text To Slug tool turns any title, headline, or sentence into a clean, URL-safe slug — the short, readable string that identifies a page in its address, like getting-started in example.com/docs/getting-started. It lowercases the text, swaps spaces and punctuation for a single separator, and strips out everything a browser or content management system would choke on. The result is a tidy slug you can paste straight into a blog post, a route, or a file name.

How to use it

1. Type or paste your title into the input box.
2. Read the slug below — it updates live as you type.
3. Adjust the options if you need to: pick a hyphen or underscore separator, turn accent stripping on or off, keep the original case, or set a maximum length.
4. Tap Copy to grab the slug. Answer in one second, then get back to writing.

The method behind it

The tool builds the slug deterministically, in a fixed order, so the output is always predictable. First, if Strip accents is on, it decomposes the text using Unicode NFKD normalization and removes the combining diacritical marks, so é becomes e and ü becomes u. Next it lowercases the text unless you chose to keep the case. Then it replaces every run of characters that is not a letter or a digit with a single separator, collapsing multiple spaces, commas, and symbols into one clean break. Finally it trims any separator from the start and end, and if you set a maximum length it truncates and trims again so the slug never ends on a dangling dash. Letters and digits are matched with Unicode-aware rules, so non-Latin scripts are preserved rather than wiped out.

Examples

• Hello, World! becomes hello-world.
• Crème Brûlée Recipe becomes creme-brulee-recipe with accent stripping on.
• 10 Tips for 2026 — Part #2 becomes 10-tips-for-2026-part-2.
• With the underscore separator, My Draft Title becomes my_draft_title.

Common use cases

• Generating blog post and article URLs that are short and readable.
• Naming files, folders, and image assets without spaces or special characters.
• Building route paths and anchor IDs in web apps.
• Cleaning up a page title before pasting it into a CMS like WordPress, Ghost, or a static site generator.
• Creating consistent handles for tags, categories, and product pages.

Why use this one

Most slug generators give you a single fixed format. This one puts the choices in your hands: hyphen or underscore, keep or strip accents, preserve case, and cap the length — all updating live with a one-tap copy. The accent transliteration means an accented word stays readable instead of vanishing, which matters for international titles. And because everything runs in your browser, your unpublished titles and private drafts never touch a server.

It pairs naturally with its text-toolkit siblings. Reach for the URL Encoder / Decoder when a value needs percent-encoding instead of a slug, the Case Converter to switch a title between sentence, title, and upper case before slugging it, or the Lorem Ipsum Generator to mock up placeholder titles while you design a page.

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