Is there a formatting tag that does?
Does this work?
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[ s ] seems to do it.
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I’ve been using ~~word~~ or sometimes <strike>word</strike>
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So many options! Thanks guys. I’m still curious as to why <del> doesn’t strike through though. It certainly did on the SUSD forum.
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It did.
I would assume that software here is much more up to date.
I’ve been using <strike> since that’s what I’ve used for years; thanks @pillbox and @RossM for the others. Maybe semantically <del> gets paired with <ins> (which practically nobody supports) and then forgotten about because Discourse has actual revision history?
I don’t know how often the SU&SD forum software was updated. I think they may have had a faster machine to host it on, so they could do an upgrade without as much downtime.
Incidentally the next major Discourse release is planned for 24 June.
Yeh, <del> has semantic meaning and gets used by the edit history display, whereas <s> is just a styling tag (incidentally <strike> is no longer considered valid by the HTML spec). The SU&SD forums may have had some custom CSS to change how <del> was styled.
Much the same way as the difference between <em> and <i> is that one says “this is emphasised text, style it appropriately” and one says “this should be styled as italicised”, even though they usually result in the same styling.
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