# Julia Markdown doesn't have strikethroughs

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-markdown-doesnt-have-strikethroughs/74644
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** markdown
**Created:** [January 14, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-markdown-doesnt-have-strikethroughs/74644 "2022-01-14T20:02:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![brett\_knoss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brett_knoss/32/13050_2.png) [@brett\_knoss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brett_knoss)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-markdown-doesnt-have-strikethroughs/74644/1 "2022-01-14T20:02:17Z")

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Julia Markdown doesn’t do strikethroughs with the` ~~~~ ` notation, like Markdown, and this is a problem for showing simplification. What GitHub do I report this on?

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### Author: ![Henrique\_Becker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/henrique_becker/32/15443_2.png) [@Henrique\_Becker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Henrique_Becker)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-markdown-doesnt-have-strikethroughs/74644/2 "2022-01-14T20:41:51Z")

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Does it work in other Discourse-powered forums? If not, then probably your should report it in the [Discourse engine repository](https://github.com/discourse/discourse).

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### Author: ![tlienart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tlienart/32/7640_2.png) [@tlienart](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tlienart)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-markdown-doesnt-have-strikethroughs/74644/3 "2022-01-14T20:57:21Z")

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Strikethrough, while available on GitHub flavoured Markdown, is not part of all Markdown implementations and, notably, not part of CommonMark (nor indeed the Julia flavour). Same as, for instance, checklists.

You didn’t give context to your question so it’s hard to guess what you’re trying to do but if the output you want is e.g. HTML, then CommonMark.jl is a good package and while it doesn’t have ` ~~...~~ ` it does allow you to insert HTML `<strike>...</strike>` .

Note that strikethrough is the least of the potential problem of Julia’s Markdown module, there are more pressing issues: [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+markdown+label%3Amarkdown](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+markdown+label%3Amarkdown)

On Discourse you can use `<strike>` tag: ~~foo~~ or indeed the ` ~~`:~~ foo~~

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### Author: ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-markdown-doesnt-have-strikethroughs/74644/4 "2022-01-14T20:57:41Z")

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~~works sometimes~~  
\<s\>\</s\>

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### Author: ![icweaver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/icweaver/32/45764_2.png) [@icweaver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/icweaver)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2026, 11:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-markdown-doesnt-have-strikethroughs/74644/5 "2026-01-08T23:40:38Z")

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This is [now supported in CommonMark.jl v0.10.0](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-commonmark-jl/39807/19):

> [@Strikethrough in Pluto Markdown block](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/strikethrough-in-pluto-markdown-block/133969/8):
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> Update: Just saw Michael’s awesome announcement: [[ANN] CommonMark.jl - #19 by mike](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-commonmark-jl/39807/19) using CommonMark p() = enable!(Parser(), StrikethroughRule()) cm""" ## TODO: 1. One 1. \<s\>Two\</s\> `# or \<del\>\</del\>` 1. ~~Three~~"""p The future is now.