The world wonders…
Apparently not. The coding looks OK, but the thread title came out wrong.
Cut-paste the title into here:
Test thread: [del]can you do strike-thru in thread titles?[/del]
Did this work?
ETA: Yes, so the problem is that you can’t do that in a thread title.
Does it work in the title of a post that isn’t the OP?
ETA: No! Apparently, a Title is a Title, and it doesn’t matter if it’s the thread title or a post title.
Correct. You also can’t code to bold or itals in a thread title.
Is that by choice or limitation?
I refer you to a thread i started way back in 2003:
[noparse]Coding does not work [sup]in[/sup] titles[/noparse]
[del]Is there a work around?[/del]
Yes, apparently there is.
But wrapping it in another tag won’t work in the title title.
Now THAT thread was amusing!
OK, I’m trying that to see if it works for me.
ETA: no, it didn’t work. How the fuck did you do that, BigT?
the title that [del]is full of shit[/del] proves BigT was right
I figured it out, BigT, you can ignore that last post, you bastard! Dayum, but that was obvious!!
I know, I just meant it would work if you wanted to make a thread title, as the person did in the post I was responding to.
And, Cheshire Human, I’ll have you know that my mom did marry my dad. 
OK, I’ll call you a Sonoma Beach*, then, instead! 
*It’s a state park in California, Google it!
Did it work?
eta:Nope.
One more try.
And again.
eta:Looks like HTML escaping won’t do it.
Another test.
eta:Nope.
[del]Ooooh let me try a title![/del]
I can get it to work, I don’t know why you guys can’t.
[del]Yea, I know that trick.[/del]
I was trying to get it to work for real.
I think the reason coding in general is disabled in titles is that it’d make a mess of things if anyone ever tried to put a link in a title (since the titles themselves are links, on the forum page).