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<title>DEL - Deleted Text</title>
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<h1>DEL - Deleted Text</h1>
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<th>Syntax</th>
<td><strong class=required><DEL></strong>...<strong class=required></DEL></strong></td>
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<th>Attribute Specifications</th>
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<li>CITE=<var><a href="../values.html#uri">URI</a></var> (reason for deletion)</li>
<li>DATETIME=<var><a href="../values.html#datetime">Datetime</a></var> (date and time of deletion)</li>
<li><a href="../attrs.html">common attributes</a></li>
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<th>Contents</th>
<td><a href="../inline.html">Inline elements</a>, <a href="../block.html">block-level elements</a></td>
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<th>Contained in</th>
<td><a href="../inline.html">Inline elements</a>, <a href="../block.html">block-level elements</a></td>
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<p>The <strong class=html>DEL</strong> element contains content that has been <em>deleted</em>. This element is useful in marking changes from one version of a document to the next. Through <a href="../../css/">style sheets</a>, authors can suggest an appropriate rendering, such as not displaying the deleted content or rendering the text with a strike-through style.</p>
<p><strong class=html>DEL</strong> may be used as either a <a href="../block.html">block-level element</a> or an <a href="../inline.html">inline element</a>. If used as an inline element (<abbr title="for example"><i lang=la>e.g.</i></abbr>, within a <strong class=html><a href="../block/p.html">P</a></strong>), then <strong class=html>DEL</strong> may not contain any block-level elements.</p>
<p>The optional <strong class=html>CITE</strong> attribute of <strong class=html>DEL</strong> gives a <abbr class=initialism title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr> with information on why the content was deleted. A brief explanation for the deletion can be given with the <strong class=html>TITLE</strong> attribute, which may be rendered as a "tooltip" by some browsers.</p>
<p>The optional <strong class=html>DATETIME</strong> attribute specifies the date and time of the deletion. The value is case-sensitive and of the form <strong class=html><var>YYYY</var>-<var>MM</var>-<var>DD</var>T<var>hh</var>:<var>mm</var>:<var>ss</var><var>TZD</var></strong>. See the <a href="../values.html#datetime" title="Datetime Values">values</a> section for a full explanation of this format.</p>
<p>An example follows:</p>
<p class=example><code class=html><strong><DEL CITE="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/changes.html#h-A.1.3" DATETIME="1997-12-19T00:00:00-05:00" TITLE="XMP is obsolete"></strong><P>The XMP element contains preformatted text in which markup other than an end tag is treated as literal text.</P><strong></DEL></strong></code></p>
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<p>Since <strong class=html>DEL</strong> is poorly supported among browsers, authors may wish to use a <a href="../fontstyle/index.html">font style element</a> such as <strong class=html><a href="../fontstyle/strike.html">STRIKE</a></strong> (<a href="../deprecated.html">deprecated</a> in HTML4.0) to attempt to convey the meaning of <strong class=html>DEL</strong> to non-supporting visual browsers. The previous example could also be marked up as follows:</p>
<p class=example><code class=html><strong><DEL CITE="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/changes.html#h-A.1.3" DATETIME="1997-12-19T00:00:00-05:00" TITLE="XMP is obsolete"></strong><P><STRIKE>The XMP element is used for preformatted text in which markup other than an end tag is treated as literal text.</STRIKE></P><strong></DEL></strong></code></p>
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<h2>More Information</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#edef-del">DEL in <abbr class=initialism title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> HTML4.0 Recommendation</a></li>
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