ReST strikethrough

Question

Is it possible to strike text through in Restructured Text?

Something that for example renders as a tag when converted to HTML, like:

Answer 1

I found the other answers very helpful. I am not very familiar with Sphinx but I am using it for a project. I too wanted the strike-through ability and have got it working based on the previous answers. To be clear, I added my strikethrough role as gozzilli mentioned but I saved it inside my conf.py using the rst_prolog variable as discussed in the stack overflow thread here. This means that this role is available to all of your rest files.

I then extended the base html template as described above by creating layout.htmlwithin _templatesinside my source directory. The contents of this file are:

{% extends "!layout.html" %}
{% set css_files = css_files + ["_static/myStyle.css"] %}

This basically includes a custom css file to all your built default html docs.

Finally, in my _static directory within my source directory I included the file myStyle.css which contains:

.strike {
  text-decoration: line-through;
}

Which the other answers have already provided.

I am merely writing this answer as it wasn't obvious to me with my limited Sphinx experience which files to edit.