diff --git a/runtime/syntax/html.vim b/runtime/syntax/html.vim
index 49d3ab4..5f943a9 100644
--- a/runtime/syntax/html.vim
+++ b/runtime/syntax/html.vim
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
 " Maintainer:           Jorge Maldonado Ventura <jorgesumle@freakspot.net>
 " Previous Maintainer:  Claudio Fleiner <claudio@fleiner.com>
 " Repository:           https://notabug.org/jorgesumle/vim-html-syntax
-" Last Change:          2017 Jan 21
-"                       included patch from Jorge Maldonado Ventura
+" Last Change:          2017 Sep 30
+" included patch from Christian Brabandt to make use of the strikethrough attributes
+"
 
 " Please check :help html.vim for some comments and a description of the options
 
@@ -45,13 +46,13 @@
 syn keyword htmlTagName contained form hr html img
 syn keyword htmlTagName contained input isindex kbd li link map menu
 syn keyword htmlTagName contained meta ol option param pre p samp span
-syn keyword htmlTagName contained select small strike sub sup
+syn keyword htmlTagName contained select small sub sup
 syn keyword htmlTagName contained table td textarea th tr tt ul var xmp
 syn match htmlTagName contained "\<\(b\|i\|u\|h[1-6]\|em\|strong\|head\|body\|title\)\>"
 
 " new html 4.0 tags
 syn keyword htmlTagName contained abbr acronym bdo button col label
-syn keyword htmlTagName contained colgroup del fieldset iframe ins legend
+syn keyword htmlTagName contained colgroup fieldset iframe ins legend
 syn keyword htmlTagName contained object optgroup q s tbody tfoot thead
 
 " new html 5 tags
@@ -135,6 +136,9 @@
   " rendering
   syn cluster htmlTop contains=@Spell,htmlTag,htmlEndTag,htmlSpecialChar,htmlPreProc,htmlComment,htmlLink,javaScript,@htmlPreproc
 
+  syn region htmlStrike start="<del\>" end="</del>"me=e-6 contains=@htmlTop
+  syn region htmlStrike start="<strike\>" end="</strike>"me=e-9 contains=@htmlTop
+
   syn region htmlBold start="<b\>" end="</b>"me=e-4 contains=@htmlTop,htmlBoldUnderline,htmlBoldItalic
   syn region htmlBold start="<strong\>" end="</strong>"me=e-9 contains=@htmlTop,htmlBoldUnderline,htmlBoldItalic
   syn region htmlBoldUnderline contained start="<u\>" end="</u>"me=e-4 contains=@htmlTop,htmlBoldUnderlineItalic
@@ -268,6 +272,11 @@
     hi def htmlUnderline           term=underline cterm=underline gui=underline
     hi def htmlUnderlineItalic     term=italic,underline cterm=italic,underline gui=italic,underline
     hi def htmlItalic              term=italic cterm=italic gui=italic
+    if v:version > 800 || v:version == 800 && has("patch1038")
+        hi def htmlStrike              term=strikethrough cterm=strikethrough gui=strikethrough
+    else
+        hi def htmlStrike              term=underline cterm=underline gui=underline
+    endif
   endif
 endif