The HTML <s></s> element has been deprecated since HTML 4 in favor of the CSS text-decoration:line-through;. It is now obsolete in HTML5. This element renders text with a line crossing them out, similar to the <strike> element. If it represents deleted text, use the <del> element instead.

Attributes

Global Attributes

See Global HTML Attributes.

HTML example:

<s>Text on strike</s>

That will produce: Text on strike

Using text-decoration...

<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">TEXT</span>

That produces: TEXT

See Also

• <del>

External Links

• The s element in HTML5
• The S element in HTML4.01