# Please add strikethrough and underline support in Markdown
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-add-strikethrough-and-underline-support-in-markdown/22843
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** markdown, completed
**Created:** [12월 4, 2014, 3:59오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-add-strikethrough-and-underline-support-in-markdown/22843 "2014-12-04T15:59:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [12월 4, 2014, 3:59오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-add-strikethrough-and-underline-support-in-markdown/22843/1 "2014-12-04T15:59:47Z")
Hello,
Github Markdown has strikethrough support like this:
```
~~deleted text~~
```
This would be extremely useful on my site. Additionally, it is sometimes useful to strikethrough an entire paragraph. Maybe it could be implemented like this?
```plaintext
~~~
Long paragraph of deleted text. Long paragraph of deleted text. Long paragraph of deleted text. Long paragraph of deleted text. Long paragraph of deleted text. Long paragraph of deleted text. Long paragraph of deleted text. Long paragraph of deleted text.
~~~
```
Additionally, it would be nice to have underline support like Textile:
```
+underlined+
```
I know that Discourse has bbcode support too, but I hate bbcode and all [hate]tags[/hate] pretty much. 😄
Thanks a lot fore reading!
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [12월 5, 2014, 12:12오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-add-strikethrough-and-underline-support-in-markdown/22843/2 "2014-12-05T00:12:16Z")
Markdown suggestions should be directed to [talk.commonmark.org](http://talk.commonmark.org/), or more specifically this existing [thread about the strikeout feature](http://talk.commonmark.org/t/strikeout-threw-out-strikethrough-strikes-out-throughout/820?u=erlend_sh). If Discourse invents its own conventions, that would defeat the whole purpose of creating the CommonMark spec.
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### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [12월 5, 2014, 3:48오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-add-strikethrough-and-underline-support-in-markdown/22843/3 "2014-12-05T03:48:40Z")
Ah, I didn’t know there was a spec, thanks for the link. I assumed it was kind of a dead project being forked by any number of newer initiatives.
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [1월 30, 2015, 1:37오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-add-strikethrough-and-underline-support-in-markdown/22843/4 "2015-01-30T13:37:56Z")
As I learned here:
[Can we get a strike through text style? - #4 by Helvetosaur - Meta - McNeel Forum](http://discourse.mcneel.com/t/can-we-get-a-strike-through-text-style/519/4)
Strikethrough is available now via `some old text` ( ~~some old text~~ )
Hope this helps!
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### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [1월 30, 2015, 10:15오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-add-strikethrough-and-underline-support-in-markdown/22843/5 "2015-01-30T22:15:25Z")
`strikethrough` ~~strikethrough~~ also works, but it’s still not as simple and intuitive as ~~.
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [1월 30, 2015, 10:37오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-add-strikethrough-and-underline-support-in-markdown/22843/6 "2015-01-30T22:37:38Z")
Standard HTML code strike-though is ~~not yet available!~~ now available!
According to the HTML5 spec, `` or `` serve a different purpose to `` semantically.
> **[HTML Standard](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html)**
> The `` element represents contents that are no longer accurate or no longer relevant.
>
> **NOTE:** The `s` element is not appropriate when indicating document edits; to mark a span of text as having been removed from a document, use the `del` element.
> **[HTML Standard](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/edits.html)**
> The `del` element represents a removal from the document.
Using `` also causes rise for people to use `` to insert text, the underline text on the first line of this post is inserted like this:
` now available!`
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### Author:  [@NomNuggetNom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NomNuggetNom)
#### Post date: [1월 30, 2015, 11:35오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-add-strikethrough-and-underline-support-in-markdown/22843/7 "2015-01-30T23:35:01Z")
It is possible to strikethrough and underline using BBcode, just in case you want to use it in the mean time.
`[s]text[/s]` text
`[u]text[/u]` text
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 30, 2015, 11:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-add-strikethrough-and-underline-support-in-markdown/22843/8 "2015-01-30T23:36:35Z")
There is _ample_ support for this, so closing.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 30, 2015, 11:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-add-strikethrough-and-underline-support-in-markdown/22843/9 "2015-01-30T23:36:38Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [8월 29, 2023, 11:10오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-add-strikethrough-and-underline-support-in-markdown/22843/10 "2023-08-29T11:10:26Z")
이제 마크다운을 사용하여 취소선(strikethrough)을 사용할 수 있습니다:
~~strikethrough~~
` ~~strikethrough~~ `
아직 밑줄은 지원되지 않지만, BBCode를 사용할 수는 있습니다:
underline
`[u]underline[/u]`