<abbr> HTML Tag

In this article I explain the <abbr> tag in HTML which is used for indicating an abbreviation.
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Introduction

The <abbr> tag describes an abbreviated phrase.By marking up abbreviations you can give useful information to browsers, spell checkers, translation systems and search-engine indexers.

Some of the attributes of <abbr> tag

Attributes Description
class Specifies a classname for an element
dir Specifies the text direction for the content in an element
id Specifies a unique id for an element
lang Specifies a language code for the content in an element
style Specifies an inline style for an element
title Specifies extra information about an element

Lets take an example
 

<html>

<head>

    <title></title>

</head>

<body>

    The

    <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">

        HTML</abbr>

    tag is used to create the web page.In this we use many tags one of these are

    <abbr title="Abbreviation">

        abbr</abbr>

    tag.

</body>

</html>

 

Output

 

In this example I make HTML and abbr as an abbreviation when I put the cursor upon these it looks like,


 

abbr1.jpg

abbr2.jpg

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