Text to Slug Converter
Turn any title into a clean, lowercase, hyphenated URL slug.
How to use this tool
- 1Paste the title or heading you want to convert.
- 2The slug is generated automatically as you type.
- 3Shorten it if it is longer than you want in a URL.
- 4Copy the slug into your CMS or code.
About this tool
A slug is the readable part of a URL after the domain, and it does real work. Search engines treat words in the URL as a signal about what the page covers, people scan URLs before clicking, and a clean slug survives being pasted into a message or a document without turning into a wall of percent-encoded characters. Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens rather than underscores, drop punctuation and accents, and describe the page in a few words rather than repeating an entire headline. This converter applies all of those rules at once: it strips diacritics, removes symbols, collapses spaces into single hyphens and trims stray hyphens from the ends. The conversion runs entirely in your browser.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why hyphens instead of underscores?
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Search engines treat hyphens as word separators and underscores as joiners, so hyphens split the words the way you intend.
How long should a slug be?
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Three to six meaningful words is a good target. Drop filler words like 'the' and 'a' unless they change the meaning.
What happens to accented characters?
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They are converted to their closest plain equivalents, so 'café' becomes 'cafe' rather than being dropped.