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Using HTML tags is supposed to work with GitHub Markdown, but in particular <s>text</s> is not working for me. It works on live preview page (which is now depreciated) but not on preview of README.md file (it does work on wikis - I just checked). I didn't find any special syntax for strikethrough on Markdown: Syntax page.

Is it not possible?

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Lol... depreciated. You mean deprecated. – Chloe Mar 20 at 5:45

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Use ~~tildes around the words~~.

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won't work on multiple paragraphs at once, but this is good enough too.. tnx – Nevena May 3 '11 at 9:25
Nice @iangreenleaf – Cirrostratus Apr 8 at 16:41
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I just used the following syntax

<del> ... </del>

successfully on GitHub in an issue description.

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This is a good answer too, since Markdown accepts arbitrary HTML tags. Depends on how you want to use it. – IanGreenleaf Apr 26 at 23:34

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