A merchant seeks to add strikethrough formatting (e.g., “Was $199 now $129”) to text fields in Shopify’s Horizon theme, particularly for headings and hero sections. The theme’s rich text editor lacks a strikethrough button or HTML editor access.
Proposed workarounds:
Key clarification: The limitation stems from the specific rich text setting type used in the theme, not from the Horizon theme itself or Shopify’s platform capabilities. Different setting types support different formatting options.
The merchant expresses frustration that strikethrough—a common e-commerce pricing convention—isn’t readily available in standard text editors. The discussion remains unresolved regarding native support, though technical workarounds exist.
Hi there, title says it all.
Where do we find the strikethrough button or even an HTML editor button to manually add strikethrough for text fields in Horizon?
And obviously looking for a way to add strikethrough which won’t break theme updates/cause complications.
Cheers
@Ben31 the horizon theme itself has nothing to with themes settings limitations.
If a setting type like rich text doesn’t support an advanced formatting option it just doesn’t support that.
If available in the theme use a custom-liquid based setting and use full html to get the wanted effect, or custom-liquid block etc.
An alternative is to use a strikethrough text generator found online, but beware of any SEO or accessibility impact such specialty text-characters may have.
If a theme doesn’t have e a custom-liquid based setting, or block, it can be added with an advanced theme customization.
If you need this customization then contact me for services.
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ALWAYS please provide context, examples: store url, theme name, post url(s) , or any further detail in ALL correspondence.
So if it’s not the theme, does that mean Shopify as a platform doesn’t support strikethrough text?
As in…
the horizon theme itself has nothing to with themes settings limitations
The theme settings your using, rich text, does not support that specific formatting.
Nothing to do with the platform otherwise the guidance you’ve been given also wouldn’t work.
So if it has nothing to do with the Horizon theme, and nothing to do with the Shopify platform, who decides there’s no strikethrough?
I mean, even this forum has strikethrough !
Just because some method exists elsewhere in other software does not mean a themes setting system is going to do everything.
Shopify is a platform with a theme system, horizon is one of those themes, themes use the theme setting system to configure options.
theme settings are not the same as a singular specific theme and a specific theme is not the same as the entire platform.
Your seeking a desired outcome for the ego by ignoring the reality of the explanation by jumping from end to ends to skip over the context that matters.
It’s like insisting your car should come with a thruster jet feature because some airplanes out in the world do.
It’s unreasonable instead of taking the guidance and moving on with more productive things.
Merchants with a feature need can make a feature request to shopify support.
OK but strikethrough is something us merchants use all the time in sale marketing; was $199 no $129
So while it’s not like selling a car without wheels, it is like selling a car without indicators - it’s literally ecommerce pricing 101.
