Text to Slug

Convert any text to a clean URL slug with custom separator options

What is it and how does it work?

A text-to-slug converter turns a title or phrase into a clean URL slug — the lowercase, hyphenated string that identifies a page in its address, like turning "My First Blog Post!" into my-first-blog-post. URLs only safely allow a limited set of characters, so a slug strips out spaces, punctuation and accents, lowercases everything and joins the words with hyphens. The result is a readable, link-friendly identifier that works in a web address, a filename or any place that wants a tidy, safe string.

Good slugs matter for both usability and SEO: a clean, descriptive slug is easier to read, share and remember than a string of IDs or encoded characters, and search engines treat readable URLs as a small positive signal. The fiddly parts a slug generator handles are converting accented or non-Latin characters to plain ASCII, collapsing multiple separators, and trimming stray hyphens at the ends. This tool does all of that in your browser, with options for the separator and casing, so you get a consistent slug every time.

Common use cases

• Creating a blog URL: turn an article title into a slug for the page address before publishing.
• Generating safe filenames: convert a document name into a tidy, lowercase, hyphenated filename with no spaces or special characters.
• Building consistent identifiers: produce uniform slugs from a list of titles for routes, anchors or keys.

Frequently asked questions

Why use hyphens instead of underscores or spaces in a URL?

Spaces are not allowed in URLs and get percent-encoded into %20, which looks messy. Hyphens are the widely recommended word separator for slugs because search engines treat them as spaces between words, whereas underscores can join words together. Hyphens keep the slug readable and SEO-friendly.

How are accented or non-English characters handled?

A good slug converts accented letters to their closest plain ASCII equivalent — "café" becomes cafe — and removes characters that have no safe URL form. This keeps slugs portable and avoids percent-encoded sequences that make a URL hard to read and share.

Why are slugs lowercase?

URLs can be case-sensitive on some servers, so mixing cases risks two addresses pointing at different things or broken links. Lowercasing everything avoids that ambiguity and is the universal convention, which is why a slug generator lowercases by default.

Can I change the separator or keep the original case?

Often yes. While hyphen-and-lowercase is the standard, some contexts call for underscores or want to preserve casing. A flexible generator lets you choose the separator and casing so the slug matches whatever the destination expects.

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