Get underlined text with Markdown

Question

I am using BlueCloth as a Markdown library for Ruby, and I can\'t find any syntax for getting a text underlined. What is it?

Answer 1

Another reason is that tags are deprecated in XHTML and HTML5, so it would need to produce something like this. (IMHO, if is deprecated, so should be and .) Note that Markdown produces and instead of and , respectively, which explains the purpose of the text therein instead of its formatting. Formatting should be handled by stylesheets.

Update: The element is no longer deprecated in HTML5.