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Does strike through work in the question line?

Asked by ETpro (34605points) May 15th, 2013

The easiest way to find out it to ask and see. Some of the latex formatting set (* for bold) and links are ones I’ve noticed, don’t work. What formatting is supported in the question input, and what’s not?

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ETpro's avatar

I didn’t know how to test without actually asking a question. Obviously, the answer to the main question is “Yes.” But how about the additional formatting which works in answers. What does and does not work in the main question input?

rebbel's avatar

Yes, it does.
As opposed to in answers.

Mariah's avatar

Evidently so.

Funny anecdote: early in the existence of the site I used to frequent before Fluther, AiROW, you could use HTML tags like <s> in your posts. Just to see what would happen (I was a troublemaking 13 year old back then) I made a post with an opening <s> and never closed it with an equivalent </s> tag. The entire website was struck-through until the owner came in and cleaned it up. So naughty.

I think the only reason bold doesn’t work in the title is because the title font, by default, is bolded already.

SuperMouse's avatar

Most Helpful Answer of the Thread: Why yes, yes it does!

PhiNotPi's avatar

Actual Most Helpful Answer: No, strike through does not work in the title of the question.

SuperMouse's avatar

@PhiNotPi huh? How did @ETpro get it to work?

filmfann's avatar

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Tropical_Willie's avatar

“Thanks for the inquiry, we will get back to when we have a chance.”

Bellatrix's avatar

No. Absolutely not.

Crumpet's avatar

<b>I’ve not used <u>HTML</u> since I had a MySpace page years ago</b>

Crumpet's avatar

And it goes to show, I don’t have a clue what I’m doing

Mariah's avatar

Nah, you did that right for HTML, just Fluther has its own way of handling text markup amds doesn’t allow standard HTML. Probably because of troublemakers like me.

ETpro's avatar

Yep, Fluther’s founding fathers were wise to not allow HTML tags, because doing so requires some very serious heavy lifting in programming to spot and repair unclosed tags that require closure, and which ones do changes as the DTD changes.

Mariah's avatar

After my little incident on AiROW, the owner changed the site so that any unclosed tags would be closed automatically, and also print this message at the bottom of the post:

“I am an idiot for not closing my HTML tag.”

augustlan's avatar

I’m pretty sure links and bold are the only ones that don’t work in the title. Bold, because (as @Mariah said, the title is already bold), and links…well, hmm. I’m not really sure why links don’t work. Maybe to avoid a messy home page? All sorts of random red/orange links would clutter up the nice, clean interface.

Mariah's avatar

Well the question titles are already links, too! On the home page anyway, not on the question details.

augustlan's avatar

Oh, duh. Hahaha.

ETpro's avatar

@Mariah Bingo. It is verboten to have a link inside another link even if both links are properly closed. There are a ton of rules in HTML (particularly XHTML 1.0 Strict—the DTD Fluther uses) about what sort of tags can and cannot be placed inside other tags. And as HTML5 now breaks upon us, all that is subject to change. :-)

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