How to mark deleted text in HTML?

HTML Web Development Front End Technology

To mark deleted text in HTML, use the <del>…</del> tag. It renders a strikethrough text. HTML5 introduced the <del> tag. Before the <strike> tag was used to mark deleted text, which is now deprecated.

Just keep in mind both the opening and closing tag is mandatory while using the <del>...</del> tag. Use it inside the <p>…</p> tag.

Example

You can try the following code to mark deleted text in HTML, using the <del> tag

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>HTML del tag</title>
   </head>

   <body>
      <h1>Heading</h1>
      <p>
         This is demo text. <del>This text is deleted</del>
      </p>
   </body>
</html>

Lakshmi Srinivas

Published on 18-Jan-2018 15:19:03

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