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HTML <abbr> Tag

Example

The marked abbreviation is as follows:

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

Browser Support

All major browsers support the <abbr> tag.

Note: IE 6 or earlier versions of IE do not support the <abbr> tag.


Tag Definition and Usage

The <abbr> tag is used to represent an abbreviation or an acronym, such as "WWW" or "NATO".

By marking abbreviations, you provide useful information to browsers, spell checkers, translation systems, and search engine indexers.


Tips and Notes

Tip: In some browsers, when you hover the mouse over an abbreviation/acronym with the <abbr> tag, the title attribute of the <abbr> tag can be used to display the full version of the abbreviation/acronym.


Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

None.


Global Attributes

The <abbr> tag supports HTML's global attributes.


Event Attributes

The <abbr> tag supports HTML's event attributes.

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