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HTML <abbr> tag

Example

An abbreviation is marked up as follows:

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

The <abbr> tag describes an abbreviated phrase.

By marking up abbreviations you can give useful information to browsers, spellcheckers, screen readers, translation systems and search-engines.

The <abbr> tag is supported in all major browsers.

Note: The <abbr> tag is not supported in IE 6 or earlier versions.

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Tip: The title attribute is used to show the full version of the expression when you mouse over the abbreviation.

id, class, title, style, dir, lang, xml:lang

For a full description, go to Standard Attributes.

onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup

For a full description, go to Event Attributes.