Strikethrough formatting on markdown fields not working #7531
Description
NetBox version
v3.0.7
Feature Type
Change to existing functionality
Proposed Functionality
In any markdown-supporting textbox:
- When surroundin text with '~~' marks as described in the markdown cheat sheet as hinted below the free text field https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet,
strikethrough.
Currenty the '~~' for strikethrough isn't parsed, in as in the example below. It turns out that Markdown is a far more controversial topic than I had expected, other products such as docuwiki
As stated by Jeremy in the comments this is down to the fact that the Python Markdown library only supports the original 'official' markdown syntax, which has been extended with the strikethrough/tilde feature by many other implementations, github being one of the more notable cases.
Use case
Our example use case is that currently we use netbox's journal function to log any issues with circuits, including tickets raised - in this example our supplier reissued a new problem ticket reference for a long-suffering DSL with a new reference and we wanted a way to make it clear that the existing ticket reference was no longer valid.
Database Changes
I do not believe there would be any changes to the database structure as part of this feature request.
External dependencies
As netbox uses the python markdown library, an obvious suggestion for a further dependency (as already made by @tb-killa in comments) would be the tilde extension of the pymdown-extensions library