HTML Acronym tag
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HTML Acronym tag

Mishel Shaji
Mishel Shaji

The acronym tag is used to define an acronym. An optional title attribute can be used to specify the expansion for the acronym.

The <acronym> tag has been removed in HTML 5. Use <abbr> tag instead.

Expansion of the acronym (what you specify in the title attribute) is shown when you bring mouse over it.

Syntax

<acronym title="title">Short text</acronym>

Example

<acronym title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</acronym>

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Output

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Learn about <abbr> tag.