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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