What Text to Slug does
Text to Slug turns a headline, blog title, or product name into a tidy URL slug: all lowercase, accents flattened, spaces and punctuation swapped for single hyphens. It is handy for bloggers picking permalinks, developers building routes, and anyone who wants page addresses that read well and rank better. Type “My First Post: Hello, World!” and you get my-first-post-hello-world.
Behind the button it normalizes accented characters (so “Über” becomes “uber”), drops anything that is not a letter or number, collapses leftover gaps into one hyphen, and strips stray hyphens off both ends. No half-finished slugs with double dashes or trailing punctuation.
How to use it
- Type or paste your title into the input box.
- Press the Slugify button.
- Read the clean slug in the output box and copy it with one click.
- Tweak the wording and slugify again if you want a shorter or sharper version.
There is nothing to configure. Each time you run it the slug rebuilds from your current text, so you can iterate as fast as you can type.
Why use it here
It is free, needs no account, and there are no usage caps. Best of all, the work happens entirely in your browser: your titles are never sent to a server, which keeps draft headlines and unpublished pages private. Because nothing uploads, results appear the instant you click.
The output is consistent too, following the same hyphenated, lowercase rules every time, so your URLs stay uniform across a whole site.
Tip: keep slugs short and meaningful. Trim filler words like “the” or “a” from your title before slugifying, and your links will be both cleaner and easier to share. If you are renaming a batch of files alongside your slugs, the BulkPro desktop app from the same team handles bulk jobs.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a URL slug?
- A slug is the readable part of a web address that identifies a page, like "text-to-slug" in jottools.com/tools/text-to-slug. A good slug is short, lowercase, and uses hyphens between words so both people and search engines can read it.
- How does this tool clean up my title?
- It lowercases everything, strips accents (so "Café" becomes "cafe"), replaces spaces and punctuation with single hyphens, and trims any leftover hyphens from the start and end. The result is safe to drop straight into a URL.
- Does it work with accented letters and other languages?
- Accented Latin letters are converted to their plain form (é to e, ñ to n) and then kept. Characters with no Latin equivalent, such as many non-Latin scripts, are removed, so for those titles you may want to add a short English slug yourself.
- Should I use hyphens or underscores in a slug?
- Hyphens. Search engines treat hyphens as word separators, so "blue-widgets" reads as two words. Underscores get joined together, which is why this tool always outputs hyphenated slugs.
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Last updated: June 15, 2026