HTML abbr Tag

Example

An abbreviation is marked up as follows:
The <abbr title="World Health Organization">WHO</abbr> was founded in 1948.

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The <abbr> tag is supported in all major browsers.
Note: The <abbr> tag is not supported in IE 6 or earlier versions.

Definition and Usage

The <abbr> tag indicates an abbreviation or an acronym, like "WWW" or "NATO".
By marking up abbreviations you can give useful information to browsers, spell checkers, translation systems and search-engine indexers.

Tips and Notes

Tip: The global title attribute can be used in the <abbr> tag to show the full version of the abbreviation/acronym when you mouse over the <abbr> element.