# What is the code for strikethroughs? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 28, 2006, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-code-for-strikethroughs/362469 "2006-06-28T11:39:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-code-for-strikethroughs/362469/1 "2006-06-28T11:39:56Z")
and don’t work, but I’ve seen people using it. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-code-for-strikethroughs/362469/2 "2006-06-28T12:12:34Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > and don’t work, but I’ve seen people using it. I believe [del]this will produce a strikethrough.[/del] Use a [del] at the start, and [/del] at the end (with no spaces). Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-code-for-strikethroughs/362469/3 "2006-06-28T19:26:09Z")
FWIW, if you click the **POST REPLY** button (at the bottom right of each post) you see the post in question as it was coded by the poster. (That’s how I learned a lot of the coding.) ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-code-for-strikethroughs/362469/4 "2006-06-28T19:31:06Z")
FWIW, if you click the **REPLY** button (at the bottom right of each post) you see the post in question as it was coded by the poster. (That’s how I learned a lot of the coding.) ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-code-for-strikethroughs/362469/5 "2006-06-30T10:59:10Z")
Yeah, it just showed up so rarely I couldn’t find an example when I wanted to. Thanks! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-code-for-strikethroughs/362469/6 "2006-06-30T16:53:15Z")
This is only a [del]test[/del]. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-code-for-strikethroughs/362469/7 "2006-07-01T03:55:56Z")
[del]O rly?[/del] Ya rly. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-code-for-strikethroughs/362469/8 "2006-07-01T19:02:23Z")
No wai! ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-code-for-strikethroughs/362469/9 "2006-07-01T19:26:52Z")
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