# Strikethrough?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/786449>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 12, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/786449 "2017-05-12T14:17:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/786449/1 "2017-05-12T14:17:12Z")

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There is (or used to be) a set of tags that would let you display text with a strikethrough.

I’ve tried s, [strike]strike[/strike], [strikethrough]strikethrough[/strikethrough] and [strikeout]strikeout[/strikeout].

No luck with any of them.

There used to be a link when posting where you could bring up a list of the various bbcode values but that isn’t there any more. A quick google suggests either ‘s’ or ‘strike’ might be the answer but they aren’t working, obviously.

Has this one been removed?

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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/786449/2 "2017-05-12T14:21:23Z")

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[del]Nope[/del], it’s still there.

Use “del” and “/del” with brackets instead of quote marks.

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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/786449/3 "2017-05-12T14:22:59Z")

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And here’s the BB Code link: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=bbcode](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=bbcode)

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/786449/4 "2017-05-12T14:29:34Z")

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> [@Asimovian](#):
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> [del]Nope[/del], it’s still there.
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> Use “del” and “/del” with brackets instead of quote marks.

[del]Excellent, thanks! :D[/del]

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**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:** [May 12, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/786449/5 "2017-05-12T14:35:11Z")

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A nice tip to see any VB code, is if you can find a post that uses it, quote it- the coding will be visible.

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**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/786449/6 "2017-05-12T21:08:10Z")

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> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> A nice tip to see any VB code, is if you can find a post that uses it, quote it- the coding will be visible.

Mind [del]shattered[/del] blown.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/786449/7 "2017-05-13T11:55:41Z")

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t̸e̸s̸t̸

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**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:** [May 13, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/786449/8 "2017-05-13T11:57:10Z")

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> [@Chisquirrel](#):
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> Mind [del]shattered[/del] blown.

My work here is done

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strikethrough/786449/9 "2017-05-14T00:04:43Z")

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> [@Asimovian](#):
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> And here’s the BB Code link: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=bbcode](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=bbcode)

Shouldn’t somebody update that page about the “attachment” code?