Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

<del> — NN 6 MSIE 4, 5, 5.5, 6 HTML 4.01 Opera5

Synopsis

<del>...</del>
                     

Indicates deleted text. It has no inherent style qualities on its own but may be used to hide deleted text from view or display it as strike-through text via style sheet controls. It may be useful for legal documents and any instance where edits need to be tracked. Its counterpart is inserted text (<ins>). Both can be used to indicate either inline or block-level elements.

Attributes

cite= URL

Can be set to point to a source document that explains why the document was changed.

datetime= YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD

Specifies the date and time the change was made. Dates and times follow the format listed above where YYYY is the four-digit year, MM is the two-digit month, DD is the day, hh is the hour (00 through 23), mm is the minute (00 through 59), and ss is the seconds (00 through 59). The TZD stands for “Time Zone Designator” and its value can be Z (to indicate UTC, Coordinated Universal Time), an indication of the number of hours and minutes ahead of UTC (such as +03:00), or an indication of the number of hours and minutes behind UTC (such as -02:20).

This is the standard format for date and time values in HTML. For more information, see http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-datetime-19980827.