# What's the coding for strikethrough text in this format? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 5, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149 "2023-12-05T23:45:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/1 "2023-12-05T23:45:47Z")
Seems like a straightforward question, so I’ll just say TIA. Oh, also need answer fast. TIA. again. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/2 "2023-12-05T23:49:49Z")
~~ \<-Before and after ~~test~~ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/3 "2023-12-05T23:56:38Z")
Huh. That seems a lot less complex than the old HTML tags. (\< del \> \< /del \>). Which also seems to work. Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/4 "2023-12-05T23:59:03Z")
~~Trying this~~ Works! ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/5 "2023-12-05T23:59:47Z")
That simple? I always have used “\<” and “s” and “\>” to start, and “\<” and “/” and “s” and “\>” to finish (without the "and"s). Both methods seem to work. test: \strike out\<\s\> = ~~strike out~~ To use the HTML tags you write them, to show them as text you put a “\” before and they appear in your post, but do not work. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/6 "2023-12-06T01:02:36Z")
At the risk of junior-modding, this is a Discourse technical question for the Site Feedback forum, not a community management question for ATMB. Had the OP searched there they’d probably have found a few useful posts. The appearance of the ~~tag~~ or the \tag\ is always the same in all themes. Just a plain strikethrough: ~~tag~~. For fancier situations the insert and delete text tags are designed to show the before and after versions of text. For these tags note that exactly how the text appears depends on the user’s chosen theme (not the poster’s chosen theme). So you can’t know exactly what each of your audience members will see. But in every theme the inserted and deleted text is clearly called out as different from each other and from the existing text. On my theme (SD Light) the inserted text is green highlighted and underlined, while the deleted text is pink highlighted and struck through. Here’s an example cribbed from another post: > … small planet Theia\, which\\that\ collided with the Earth to form the Moon\,\ in our mantle. results in > … small planet Theia, which ~~that~~ collided with the Earth to form the Moon, in our mantle. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/7 "2023-12-06T02:03:33Z")
~~I am the very model of a modern major general~~ ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/8 "2023-12-06T06:39:25Z")
I knew about ~~s in brackets strikethru~~ … but I did not know the old vB-style [del]del in square brackets strikethru[/del] also worked? …seems like indeed it doesn’t. …and the ~tilde~ before and after? Also doesn’t seem to work. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/9 "2023-12-06T16:01:51Z")
~~Double tilde~~ ~Single tilde~ You gotta use two before and after. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/10 "2023-12-06T16:13:25Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > That simple? I always have used “\<” and “s” and “\>” to start, and “\<” and “/” and “s” and “\>” to finish (without the "and"s). Both methods seem to work. \ and \ is what I’ve always used. I didn’t know you could just use the ‘s’. Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer got to work from home when he got too fat to go into the nuclear plant. He discovered he could answer ‘yes’ questions on the computer by typing ‘y’ instead of the whole word. “I _tripled_ my productivity today, Marge!” ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/11 "2023-12-06T16:17:40Z")
~~double tilde~~ ok cool! ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/12 "2023-12-06T16:32:27Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > I knew about ~~s in brackets strikethru~~ … Same here: [s] text [/s] (omit spaces) … but I didn’t know about the tilde or angle brackets techniques. > [@solost](#): > > Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer got to work from home when he got too fat to go into the nuclear plant. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/13 "2024-04-03T23:21:50Z")
how about sub and superscript? … and small and large sizes? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/14 "2024-04-03T23:24:37Z")
As if there isn’t enough shouting already… ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/15 "2024-04-03T23:36:20Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > how about sub and superscript? \2\ for subscript2 \3\ for superscript3 ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/16 "2024-04-03T23:50:34Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > 2 thx!!! H2O r2pi ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/17 "2024-04-03T23:51:13Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > and small and large sizes? One ~~pill~~ code makes you bigger and one ~~pill~~ code makes you small use \ to embiggen use \ for fun size Example: \EMBIGGEN\ makes EMBIGGEN ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/18 "2024-04-04T00:27:20Z")
H2O vs. H2O vs. H2O jep gotit thx ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/19 "2024-04-10T20:59:10Z")
Prior thread: > [@Can we have all the active format tags in the UI](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-all-the-active-format-tags-in-the-ui/980012): > > @codinghorror There are more tags that can be used. I discovered [u], which I think is a BB tag. \< br\> works as well so at least one html tag works. I realize the window for composing is small and the bar at the top cannot fit everything (a drop down?). If not doable, a list of working tags would be great. I have a dark theme and bold doesn’t show as … boldly as italic does. If there is a way to get [sup] and [sub] as well, that’d be great. Thanks in advance. Additional page on formatting: > **[Forum ( discourse ) Text Formatting](https://forum.playboundless.com/t/forum-discourse-text-formatting/59132)** > > discourse - The Forum System Boundless uses the discourse.org forum system to give it that sleek look. discourse basically say that if you want to format your text you can use: Markdown, BBCode, or HTML to format. However it’s never always... (previously linked by @Joey_P in 2023) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149/20 "2024-04-10T21:14:18Z")
And, FWIW, not being able to see bolded text in the Vincent theme is till a PITA. [![](https://i.imgur.com/7fLMQuK.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/7fLMQuK.png) Can and in are both bold. ETA: Not you, specifically, ParallelLines. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coding-for-strikethrough-text-in-this-format/994149.md?page=2)