# Strikethrough? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 16, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148 "2007-03-16T03:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/1 "2007-03-16T03:52:55Z")
How do I type strikethrough on this board? ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/2 "2007-03-16T03:54:21Z")
[del]Like this[/del] (codes are [del] and [/del] – remove spaces) ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/3 "2007-03-16T03:57:04Z")
[del]strikethrough[/del] = [del]strikethrough[/del] ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/4 "2007-03-16T03:58:59Z")
[del]test[/del] ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/5 "2007-03-16T07:38:59Z")
[del]censorship![/del] ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/6 "2007-03-16T14:16:07Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] [del]strikethrough[/del] = [del]strikethrough[/del] [/QUOTE] OK, **Q.E.D.,** I give up: How did you get the left side of the equation to show the codes without processing them? It looks exactly like the right side in the reply window, and I don’t see any fake characters or anything like that. Edited to add: OK, now that’s really weird that in the quote it did display as expected. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/7 "2007-03-16T14:21:33Z")
Instead of [, type in [ Instead of ], type in ] e.g. \*\* for bold ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/8 "2007-03-16T14:25:44Z")
[QUOTE=Scarlett67] OK, **Q.E.D.,** I give up: How did you get the left side of the equation to show the codes without processing them? It looks exactly like the right side in the reply window, and I don’t see any fake characters or anything like that. [/QUOTE] I used the HTML ASCII code for the left bracket character, which is [. See [here](http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm) for a table of all the available ASCII codes. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/9 "2007-03-16T14:27:12Z")
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried] Instead of [, type in [ [/QUOTE] Is your name **Q.E.D.**? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/10 "2007-03-16T14:47:31Z")
I win teh internets! hahahahaha ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/11 "2007-03-16T16:08:32Z")
I keep having the same issue, so… [del]testing[/del] ETA: OK, it works. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/12 "2007-03-16T16:31:18Z")
[del]cool[/del] [del]cooler[/del] [del]Does this work too?[/del] ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/13 "2007-03-16T16:35:19Z")
Is the edit function always quite slow? We’ll see. ETA: No. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/14 "2007-03-16T23:30:17Z")
I’ll never remember this like I can the spoiler box, but here goes nothing… [del]nothing[/del] Yippee! There 'tis!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/15 "2007-03-16T23:50:11Z")
[del]lalala[/del] Too cool, it worked! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/16 "2007-03-17T19:44:27Z")
[del]I wonder if there is a way to slice off the top half of each letter so all you see is the horizontal line and the bottom half and wouldn’t that be ginchy if we could?[/del] 🙂 > [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Is your name Q.E.D.? Huh? If you two do not **stop** this your mother and I will turn this Message Board RIGHT AROUND, do I make myself clear ?? ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/17 "2007-03-18T02:46:34Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] If you two do not **stop** this your mother and I will turn this Message Board RIGHT AROUND, do I make myself clear ?? [/QUOTE] He touched me first!!! Gonna count to three while you are at it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/396148/18 "2007-03-20T17:32:40Z")
Nope. This is the Dope, I mean really. I’m gonna count to two, the skip straight to Pi. > [@](#): > > 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679 > 8214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196 > 4428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273 > 724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609 😉