Posted by Stan McCann on 08/22/06 16:30

Old HTML Slinger<nothere@nowhere.invalid> wrote in
news:ff8le25m2eejhnl62le3m79324t6mg401e@4ax.com:

> On rare occasions I need to show words or letters being crossed out.
> Since the old <strike> tag is deprecated I've put a statement in my
> .css file that says:
>
> .crossout {
> text-decoration: line-through;
> }
>
> But the line that it puts through the letters is pretty thin. Is
> there any way I can add something to the above that will thicken the
> line? Any other ideas for getting that line thicker, more
> noticeable?

Just an untested thought. Use a span set to half line height with a
bottom border and set border to desired thickness. I don't believe
there is a way to directly make line-through thicker.

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