Name
abbr — HTML 4.01 | HTML5
Synopsis
<abbr> . . . </abbr>
Identifies the enclosed text as an abbreviation.
Start/End Tags
Required/Required
Attributes
Core, Internationalization, Events, HTML5 Global Attributes
title="text"Provides the full expression for the abbreviation. This may be useful for nonvisual browsers, speech synthesizers, translation systems, and search engines.
Example
<abbr title="Massachusetts">Mass.</abbr>
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