# How do I do the strike-through thingie?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-the-strike-through-thingie/595284>\
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**Created:** [September 5, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-the-strike-through-thingie/595284 "2011-09-05T16:40:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-the-strike-through-thingie/595284/21 "2011-09-06T18:25:20Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Incidentally, in at least some versions of Explorer (though not Chrome, annoyingly), you can get quick italic, bold and underline tags by typing Control-I, Control-B and Control-U.
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> _ **test** _
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> There are probably others as well, but I haven’t run the entire keyboard.

**Works** _in_ Firefox \*\*\*as \*\*\*_well_. Those seem to be the only ones available in Firefox too.

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-the-strike-through-thingie/595284/22 "2011-09-06T22:48:16Z")

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_ **wow, that’s a neat thing to know, hope i can remember to use it** _

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