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HTML <abbr> tag

Examples

Abbreviations are marked as follows:

The <abbr title = "World Health Organization"> WHO </ abbr> was founded in 1948.

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Browser Support

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All major browsers support <abbr> tag.

Note: IE 6 or earlier versions of IE browser does not support <abbr> tag.


Tag definitions and instructions

<Abbr> tag is used to denote an acronym or acronyms, such as "WWW" or "NATO".

Acronym marked by the words, you'll be able to browsers, spell checkers, translation systems and search engine indexers provide useful information.


Tips and Notes

Tip: In some browsers, when an acronym that you move the mouse with the <abbr> tag / acronyms on time, title attribute <abbr> tag can be used to display abbreviations / acronyms the full version of acronyms.


Differences between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

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Global Properties

<abbr> tag supports HTML global properties .


Event Properties

<abbr> tag supports HTML event properties .