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

Here's a Python definition of a del role, which works better than the accepted answer if you want to use the role in multiple pages of a Pelican blog or a Sphinx documentation project:

from docutils import nodes
from docutils.parsers.rst import roles

def deleted_role(_role, rawtext, text, _lineno, _inliner, options={}, _content=[]):
    roles.set_classes(options)
    options.setdefault('classes', []).append("del")
    return [nodes.inline(rawtext, text, **options)], []

roles.register_canonical_role('del', deleted_role)

Even better would be to extend the HTML writer to produce a proper tag, like this:

from docutils import nodes
from docutils.parsers.rst import roles
from docutils.writers._html_base import HTMLTranslator

class delnode(nodes.inline):
    pass

def visit_delnode(self, node):
    self.body.append(self.starttag(node, 'del', ''))
def depart_delnode(self, node):
    self.body.append('')

HTMLTranslator.visit_delnode = visit_delnode
HTMLTranslator.depart_delnode = depart_delnode

def deleted_role(_role, rawtext, text, _lineno, _inliner, options={}, _content=[]):
    roles.set_classes(options)
    return [delnode(rawtext, text, **options)], []

roles.register_canonical_role('del', deleted_role)

You can trivially adjust it to produce an , of course.