# Test for strikeout
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-strikeout/1022926
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [September 11, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-strikeout/1022926 "2025-09-11T01:32:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-strikeout/1022926/1 "2025-09-11T01:32:00Z")
deleted
---
### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-strikeout/1022926/2 "2025-09-11T01:33:06Z")
~~test~~
Use \< \> not []
---
### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-strikeout/1022926/3 "2025-09-11T01:40:24Z")
` ~~Markdown~~ `
`HTML`
`[s]BB Code[/s]`
---
### Author:  [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-strikeout/1022926/4 "2025-09-12T17:29:54Z")
can also use two tildes both before & ~~after~~
---
### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-strikeout/1022926/5 "2025-09-12T17:31:23Z")
~~Tilde test.~~
Ooh, that’s cool.
---
### Author:  [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-strikeout/1022926/6 "2025-09-12T17:37:39Z")
That’s what @crowmanyclouds was demonstrating above; the three formats you can use to achieve the effect.
---
### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-strikeout/1022926/7 "2025-09-12T17:40:59Z")
Yeah, it’s just that I was already familiar with the “s” tags, I didn’t realize the tildes were an actual way to do the markdown. It just looked like a title. That’s one of the risks of too much brevity I guess.
So the tildes operate the same way asterisks do (when they make text bold or italic).
Does one tilde do anything?
~Nope.~
Oh well. I thought maybe it would do an underline, that would be a logical progression.
---
### Author:  [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-strikeout/1022926/8 "2025-09-12T17:45:21Z")
Markdown doesn’t normally support underlined text; you’ll have to use HTML tags for that.
```auto
underline
```
---
### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-strikeout/1022926/9 "2025-09-16T23:01:06Z")
Interesting. Discord markdown uses double underlines, but here that’s just another way to make bold.