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html5 <del> tag support

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elearner
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Hi,

I am very disappointed by the way that Mozilla Firefox support tag. Please, try to display the code below with Firefox then Safari : you will get why I mention that Firefox has a wrong <del> tag support : 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    
    <style>
h1 {
font: 3.4em/4 "Helvetica Neue";
font-weight: 100;
font-style: italic;
}
    </style>
    
</head>
<body>

 <h1>My <del>ex</del>Title</h1>

</body>
</html>

Hi, I am very disappointed by the way that Mozilla Firefox support <del> tag. Please, try to display the code below with Firefox then Safari : you will get why I mention that Firefox has a wrong <del> tag support : <pre><nowiki><!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <style> h1 { font: 3.4em/4 "Helvetica Neue"; font-weight: 100; font-style: italic; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>My <del>ex</del>Title</h1> </body> </html></nowiki></pre>

Modified by cor-el

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cor-el
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Can you attach a screenshot to show the difference?

Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot.

elearner
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There are 2 screenshots. The first one is Firefox and second one is Safari.

cor-el
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So Firefox displays the strike through thicker and at a higher position.

Does this happen with all fonts?

I'm not having this Helvetica Neue font, but Firefox shows the strike through at about the middle of the characters for me.

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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I can only compare Firefox and Chrome. Seems that both place the line through the center of a lower case x (half of the x-height) when the font size is a bit larger but where they vary, Chrome aims higher and Firefox aims lower.

Test page: http://jsfiddle.net/3futZ/

Not sure there is any applicable standard for exactly where a line-through is drawn.

Note: You can change the font-family in the Fiddle and save as a new version if you like.

Modified by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer

elearner
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Thank you jscher2000! As you said I don't think there is any applicable standard for this issue.

http://jsfiddle.net/elearnerjs/JL98G/