HyperText Markup Language/Tag List/acronym

Use

Use when dealing with an acronym in a webpage. NOTE: Most HTML coders use the abbr tag.

Example

<p>This is a <acronym title="Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission of Radiation">
laser</acronym>, it is used a lot in Medicine these days</p>

Required attributes

title

Use this when you want the meaning of the acronym to be displayed when the mouse hvrs over the word.

Standard attributes

More info

A link to a page with more info, then the name of the site the info came from (i.e. W3Schools).

Last modified on 7 October 2010, at 19:50