HTML <del> Tag
The <del> tag specifies a part of the text that was deleted from the document. Browsers display this text as a strikethrough. To indicate a new version of the text, we use the <ins> tag, the content of which is displayed in the browser as underlined.
For displaying the text as underlined, you can use a CSS text-decoration property with the "line-through" value.
Syntax
The <del> tag comes in pairs, the content is written between the opening (<del>) and the closing (</del>) tags.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>My favorite color is <del style="color:#8ebf42;">green</del> <ins style="color:#1c87c9;"> blue</ins>!</p>
</body>
</html>
Result
Attributes
Attribute | Value | Description |
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cite | URL | Specifies the URL of the document, which explains why the text was edited or deleted. |
datetime | YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD | Defines date and time of the deleted text. |
The <del> tag also uses the Global Attributes and the Event Attributes.
Browser support
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