Name

acronym — HTML 4.01

Synopsis

<acronym> . . . </acronym>

Indicates an acronym.

Notes

Not in HTML5. Authors are advised to use abbr instead.

Start/End Tags

Required/Required

Attributes

Core, Internationalization, Events

title="text"

Provides the full expression for the acronym. This may be useful for nonvisual browsers, speech synthesizers, translation systems, and search engines.

Example

<acronym title="World Wide Web">WWW</acronym>

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