Delete all rows in a table based on another table

I can't seem to ever remember this query!

I want to delete all rows in table1 whose ID's are the same as in Table2.

So:

DELETE table1 t1
 WHERE t1.ID = t2.ID

I know I can do a WHERE ID IN (SELECT ID FROM table2) but I want to do this query using a JOIN if possible.

DELETE t1 
FROM Table1 t1
JOIN Table2 t2 ON t1.ID = t2.ID;

I always use the alias in the delete statement as it prevents the accidental

DELETE Table1

caused when failing to highlight the whole query before running it.

DELETE Table1
FROM Table1
INNER JOIN Table2 ON Table1.ID = Table2.ID

There is no solution in ANSI SQL to use joins in deletes, AFAIK.

DELETE FROM Table1
WHERE Table1.id IN (SELECT Table2.id FROM Table2)

Later edit

Other solution (sometimes performing faster):

DELETE FROM Table1
WHERE EXISTS( SELECT 1 FROM Table2 Where Table1.id = Table2.id)

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