How do I enter strikethrough text in a web form

Question

Is it possible to submit some text in web form where some of the text is in strikethough?

Is there some Alt key combination that I can use?

Solution 1

Actually, you can enter strikethrough text into a web-form using unicode characters, which is pretty universal these days. To generate the text, you could use one of these tools and then copy/paste the output.

http://adamvarga.com/strike/

Solution 2

Strikethrough is like a font. It's an attribute of the text, not text itself. Since forms are submitted in plain text, you can't have any formatting submitted with it.

Comments

[harrymc]

Richard: From this very page, the above strike-through effect was achieved by the following html code : "<strike>strikethough?</strike>". Evidently, you can't enter anything like that in the form.

[davr]

hmm...lets try the diacritic. how's this look: ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶

[davr]

That's pretty cool, comes out on my screen OK. I got it just by copy & pasting the character from the wikipedia unicode page inbetween each letter. If your web form supports unicode, like superuser seems to, then it should work.

[davr]

Here's another test: u̲n̲d̲e̲r̲l̲i̲n̲e̲

[törzsmókus]

why is it esoteric? just because your languages does not use diacritics often, they are not an esoteric thing…

[Doug Harris]

Fair point. My apologies