Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

abbr

Synopsis

<abbr>...</abbr>

Identifies the enclosed text as an abbreviation.

Attributes

Core (id, class, style, title), Internationalization, Events

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>