How do you draw a line across a bunch of letters?

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02-15-2007, 01:00 PM
KentaRawr!

How do you draw a line across a bunch of letters?

I used to know, but now this knowledge has escaped me due to not abusing it like crazy. :(

So, how might one go about making a line go across a bunch of letters? It is most commonly used as a way to "cancel out" a previous message in an edit, or sometimes used in a case such as this in Newb Threads:

Welcome to Hell

Edit:

Welcome to (Hell is crossed out) Heaven

Thanks much in advance.
02-15-2007, 01:24 PM
Mirage

By using the ~~del~~ tag, for one :]. I think just ~~s, short for strike, works too~~.
02-15-2007, 01:24 PM
Little Blue

~~Like this?~~

use [s][/s].

Damn, Mirage beat me to it.
02-15-2007, 01:33 PM
Mirage

Except i used html tags, not vBB code.
02-15-2007, 02:48 PM
Roto13

~~I don't know why there isn't a Strikeout button.~~
02-15-2007, 06:15 PM
Little Blue

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mirage

Except i used html tags, not vBB code.

So did I, but I don't know how to get it to not parse the html when I said what the code was, so I used vBB code then... :(
02-15-2007, 10:36 PM
rubah

~~<del>~~ is the common html tag for strikeout.

It used to be ~~<s>~~ for strike out, but that was deprecated along with  and  in favor of  and 
02-15-2007, 11:15 PM
Mirage

Most browsers still render them for the sake of backward compatibility :p
02-15-2007, 11:49 PM
Little Blue

Quote:

Originally Posted by rubah

~~<del>~~ is the common html tag for strikeout.

It used to be ~~<s>~~ for strike out, but that was deprecated along with  and  in favor of  and 

:monocle: Well you learn something new (in this case, three somethings new) everyday :monocle:
02-16-2007, 03:28 AM
rubah

I thought that was self evident by my usage of all of them, stale
02-16-2007, 03:37 AM
Mirage

It was more self evident by my usage of them! I'm the cool dude who helps people around here, not you!
02-16-2007, 06:12 AM
KentaRawr!

~~RAWR~~ Thanks very much for your help. n_n
02-16-2007, 06:03 PM
crono_logical

I didn't know s i and b were deprecated :p
02-17-2007, 01:25 AM
Leeza

The FAQ is such a handy, informative little read. :)
02-17-2007, 01:44 AM
rubah

reading up on the w3c is a wonderful passtime, munty!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mirage

It was more self evident by my usage of them! I'm the cool dude who helps people around here, not you!

as I happen to be a dudette, this is completely accurate.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present....html#h-15.2.1

Apparently it was that was deprecated, not the other way around ( and ) but <s> definitely is.
02-19-2007, 01:34 PM
Peter_20

This feature is ~~t3h roKK'n'RoLLzorzzz~~ very nice.