Strike out in titles of FPP's.

February 26, 2007 2:23 PM

When doing this post (nsfw) I did a strikeout for the title and it worked fine in the preview, but when it went live the strikeout was removed. "Go back" should have been striked out.
posted by bigmusic to Bugs at 2:23 PM (16 comments total)

You're just havin' trouble all over, ain'tcha?
posted by klangklangston at 2:34 PM on February 26, 2007

Since titles are used in the HTML title of a post, I strip out HTML from them. If I left them in, they'd be printed out as raw HTML in the title to the page and look really ugly.

Sorry preview doesn't strip them as well, but I'll change that so it does.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:36 PM on February 26, 2007

"Striked out" should also be stricken.
posted by leftcoastbob at 3:27 PM on February 26, 2007

I can't get anything right today.
posted by bigmusic at 3:49 PM on February 26, 2007

I'm curious, would "struck out" also have been acceptable? Or is "stricken" always used for the act of drawing a line over text in writing?
posted by Kattullus at 3:58 PM on February 26, 2007

Something in my gut says "striked out" should be kosher, or close to it, in the specific case of typography, at least in some cases:

1. ?The final line ought to be striked out.
2. *You ought to have striked out the final line.
posted by cortex at 4:02 PM on February 26, 2007

html is now being stripped out of titles on mefi, metatalk, and ask mefi.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:05 PM on February 26, 2007

My gut agrees with cortex. He's really quite tasty.
posted by Kwine at 4:06 PM on February 26, 2007

And goes very nicely with a good Merlot.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 5:13 PM on February 26, 2007

html is now being stripped out

Er, sorry, you mean struppen out.
posted by gleuschk at 6:01 PM on February 26, 2007 [1 favorite]

Wayward HTML enstrippens us all.
posted by amyms at 8:50 PM on February 26, 2007

God, I knew you'd trot out that tired old strope.
posted by cortex at 9:36 PM on February 26, 2007

I'm curious, would "struck out" also have been acceptable?
stricken/struck
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:05 AM on February 27, 2007

So glad this came up-- I've had the same thing happen in 2 (2!!) post titles, resulting in emotional trauma that I have carefully documented for my class action suit against Big Meta.
posted by hermitosis at 10:17 AM on February 27, 2007

I tried to put a heart symbol on a ridiculously silly post, and I learned the same lesson. The symbols appeared at first but before long it was called to my attention that matthowie callously broke my heart into pieces.

A couple of years of therapy & I'll be okay, though. Sniffle.
posted by miss lynnster at 7:56 PM on February 27, 2007

miss lynnster, I wish we had the img tag so I could show you that when I mouseover the link to that post, it shows the heart character in the url in the status bar. So that's kinda cool.
posted by kyleg at 10:41 PM on February 27, 2007