[feature-request]:[s]code for text strike through by default

[Technologov]

Hi All !

Standard BBcode supports text strike through. [1]

However PHPbb seems to break this standard, and allow only bold, italic and underlined text.
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text
text
[s]text[/s]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode
http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/htmlstrikethrough.php

I know it is possible to add via "BBCodes" in Admin Panel -- but only for forums that I administer myself. This won't work for third-party project forum, that I contact with.

This wish is about making this feature standard for all PHPbb forums, just like bold or underline.

-Technologov

[callumacrae]

I don't think tere is a standard xD

+1, though

[imkingdavid]

As the Wikipedia article says:

The following are the most common BBCode tags available to most modern message boards, and are displayed here with their HTML equivalents. However, the effect of these tags can be changed substantially, and the effect may not be identical on all sites using BBCode.

It says that they are the "most common", not the "standard". So while I do agree that strikethrough bbcode is very useful for many boards, and I hope that it does eventually get added to the default list, there is no cross-software bbcode standard list.

[Oleg]

Strikethrough seems pretty useful, I think we can have it in the core package.

[Dragosvr92]

As an html replacement we could use one of this:

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   <del>STRIKE 1</del>
     <s>STRIKE 2</s>
<strike>STRIKE 3</strike>

Probably you will go with <strike> as you've chosen to go with <strong> instead of <b> for the bold..

[callumacrae]

As an html replacement we could use one of this:

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   <del>STRIKE 1</del>
     <s>STRIKE 2</s>
<strike>STRIKE 3</strike>

Probably you will go with <strike> as you've chosen to go with <strong> instead of <b> for the bold..

strike and s were deprecated a very long time ago. Why would strike be chosen other the other two, anyway?

[canonknipser]

As an html replacement we could use one of this:

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   <del>STRIKE 1</del>
     <s>STRIKE 2</s>
<strike>STRIKE 3</strike>

Probably you will go with <strike> as you've chosen to go with <strong> instead of <b> for the bold..

strike and s were deprecated a very long time ago. Why would strike be chosen other the other two, anyway?

Its the same for <u>, so the better html for underlined text will be <ins> (for the normal end user it will currently make no difference)

[bantu]

I wouldn't want to mess with the current (3.0.x) BBcode engine just for that. Once the new BBcode engine is in place and built-in BBcodes have been converted to user-configurable BBcodes, I see no reason why we should not include the strike BBcode by default. Unfortunately, it looks like the new BBcode engine won't be ready before 3.2-A1. Of course, the board admin should always be able to enable or disable certain BBcodes.