If you highlight some text, you can just press a button to have it automatically emphasized on indented 4 spaces for a code sample. I think it would be great if we had this feature with strike-throughs so I don't have to manually type s tags. People use strikethoughs to delete text from their posts when editing it and adding information. This is nicer than just deleting it because it gets the point across that its older information but you can still see the original text.
asked Jul 26, 2009 at 18:13
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related: Improvements to editor for formatting source code– Brad GilbertJul 26, 2009 at 19:05
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2I think it is a good idea to have but we'll just have to have the strike tag for now.– Engineer2021Jul 21, 2010 at 13:51
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There's no way that strikethrough is used enough to justify a button, and I certainly don't want to encourage its use any more than it already is..
answered Jul 27, 2009 at 6:19
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1Okay, now I agree with this 100%. It definitely isn't used that much, plus it makes more sense to just delete the strikethroughed text most of the time. (if not, it takes 15 seconds to do it manually...) Mar 9, 2010 at 20:50
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3Actually I use it a lot. When I ask question I do a multi-teared question in where the answer isn't always done with one post. For that reason, I use the strikethrough because it will make people realize parts of the question is already answered. Like this question. stackoverflow.com/questions/12079285/… Aug 22, 2012 at 19:48
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61Strikethrough can be legally useful, when somebody replied to your answer in comments and you fixed your code as a result. If you just fix it, people may start wondering why the comment is odd. This way you show what the original answer was and why the comment is valid.– user199936Oct 26, 2012 at 15:04
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9@CrazyJugglerDrummer No way! As user199936 correctly pointed out, there are far to many odd, useless, non-sense comments in entire SE, actually because people are deleting instead of striking through. So, I may agree with Jeff, that such button isn't welcome, but I certainly won't agree with you, that deleting is better than using strike-through.– trejderDec 12, 2013 at 12:34
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12@Jeff Atwood, there is more in heaven and earth than is dreamed of in your philosophy. There are a variety of valid uses for the strikethough styling, and you should remain agnostic, not partisan. You don't punish the valid uses because there is the possibility of abuse. Especially so on a site about learning English, where one can strikeout errors and show the corrected version side-by-side. But it's not a big deal, since we have the markup alternatives.– TimSep 14, 2014 at 20:06
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1@trejder Delete those comments, then. Flag as obsolete. A clean, correct answer is more readable than a patchwork of wrong strike through text. And there should not be any need for readers to look at comments at all.– user259867Sep 14, 2014 at 21:47
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Sometimes it can be very helpful to see the original mistakes made by the poster, and the way of how they eventually got to the answer. This can be more helpful than the actual answer. If you edit and correct everything, this is all gone (and you're not going to look at the history).– Ela782May 20, 2018 at 8:10
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1I googled how to strike text and found current topic. I haven't know that I could use del or strike. I vote for adding new button Aug 28, 2019 at 20:22
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Maybe strikethrough isn't used enough because of the missing button. Have you ever edited a post?– DamienJan 14, 2020 at 12:26
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1Strikethrough is not being used much because there's no button. Just a minute ago somebody's answer made it clear to me that a part of my question was ridiculous, but if I would just remove that part the answer would look oddly irrelevant to the rest of the question. Thanks to ChrisF's answer I was able to strikethrough.– MichaelJul 3, 2021 at 19:08
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Having a strike through button is a useful way of showing that something was true once, but no longer is. By deleting things that are no longer true, you can create confusion to people looking at different sources trying to research a topic. When you strike out old information you confirm it as false; so, that a person looking at your post and another post based on old information can clearly see which information is outdated. So, a strike through can disambiguate confusion caused by change over time. Apr 22 at 16:47
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@user199936 this makes no sense - an answer should be standalone, and comments should address it, and not the other way around. There is a "flag comment as obsolete" button exactly for that purpose.– GulzarAug 17 at 13:41
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How is this marked as the right answer? The most voted is clearly the right answer. Being a button or not is not the point, the point is to allow people to add strike-though and the most voted answer does just that. Some of you talk about "clean replies", and yet this one is as useless as it could be. I agree this answer doesn't need a strike-through, it needs to be deleted. Sep 28 at 14:32
In the absence of a button (and given that Jeff has said it's not likely to be implemented) you can use the HTML tag:
Like this or this or this
Like <strike>this</strike> or <s>this</s> or <del>this</del>
See this answer for a complete list of the HTML that's allowed.
answered Jul 26, 2009 at 18:21
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4One of the key points in the suggestion was that the user didn't have to type one of these. Providing a button produces a lower barrier of entry for people and promotes the use of the feature -- like bold and italics. I don't know if strikethrough is the only HTML feature that should be promoted, nor do I have a strong opinion on if strikethrough should be promoted to a button. Just making an observation that your answer/point seems to go against the grain of the CrazyJugglerDrummer's desire.– ckittelJul 26, 2009 at 20:36
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3It does <strike>not</strike> work in comments... <s>Even</s> with the alternate <del>tags</del>. Jun 17, 2016 at 11:25
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2@Juha HTML S̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ in comments work for me!!! May 30, 2017 at 3:29
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<strike>this</strike> or <s>this</s> or <del>this</del> Why doesn't it work for me in comments? @JuhaUntinen– user361935Jan 30, 2018 at 9:36
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@njzk2 Standard markdown for strikethrough is like ~this~ but I don't think it's supported on Stack Exchange. Jun 1, 2020 at 19:37
might be obvious to some but, a useful addition, you can wrap your code code strikethrough over your , but it won't show up if you include it inside the code... <s>code</s>
handy for code edits...
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1I've still yet to see a legitimate use of strike though. It almost universally leads to me reaching for the edit button Mar 14, 2014 at 12:36
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<code><s>code</s></code>will work in questions / answers, but you need to use HTML<code>tags instead of backticks (and escape any HTML / Markdown special characters in your code). Of course, it won't work in comments, since those don't support HTML tags at all. Mar 14, 2014 at 13:28 -
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@RichardTingle Depends a lot what Stacks you are on. If you are just on Stackoverflow, you may not see it properly used much, but for English.SE, law.SE, WB.SE, etc. it would be very helpful because it is used in other ways than just preserving simple edits. Apr 22 at 16:53