<s>: The Strikethrough element

BaselineWidely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The<s>HTML element renders text with a strikethrough, or a line through it. Use the<s> element to represent things that are no longer relevant or no longer accurate. However,<s> is not appropriate when indicating document edits; for that, use the<del> and<ins> elements, as appropriate.

Try it

<p><s>There will be a few tickets available at the box office tonight.</s></p><p>SOLD OUT!</p>

s {  /* Add your styles here */}

Attributes

This element only includes theglobal attributes.

Accessibility

The presence of thes element is not announced by most screen reading technology in its default configuration. It can be made to be announced by using the CSScontent property, along with the::before and::after pseudo-elements.

css

s::before,s::after {  clip-path: inset(100%);  clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);  height: 1px;  overflow: hidden;  position: absolute;  white-space: nowrap;  width: 1px;}s::before {  content: " [start of stricken text] ";}s::after {  content: " [end of stricken text] ";}

Some people who use screen readers deliberately disable announcing content that creates extra verbosity. Because of this, it is important to not abuse this technique and only apply it in situations where not knowing content has been struck out would adversely affect understanding.

Examples

css

.sold-out {  text-decoration: line-through;}

html

<s>Today's Special: Salmon</s> SOLD OUT<br /><span>Today's Special: Salmon</span> SOLD OUT

Result

Technical summary

Content categories	Phrasing content,flow content.
Permitted content	Phrasing content.
Tag omission	None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory.
Permitted parents	Any element that acceptsphrasing content.
Implicit ARIA role	`deletion`
Permitted ARIA roles	Any
DOM interface	`HTMLElement`