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HTML tag

HTML tag is used to represent an acronym or abbreviation of a longer word or phrase, such as www, HTML, HTTP, etc. The content written between tags renders with dotted underline in some browser.

This tag can be used with "title" attribute (optional), and the value of title attribute will be pop-up when the mouse hovers over the content written between tag.

Syntax

Following are some specifications about the HTML tag

Display	Inline
Start tag/End tag	Both Start tag and End tag
Usage	Semantic/Textual

Example

With title Attribute:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
	<title>Abbreviation Tag</title>
   </head>
 <body>
	<h2>Abbreviation tag example</h2>
	<p><b>Hover mouse over the content and see the abbreviation</b></p>
               <abbr title="Hyper Text Transfer protocol">HTTP</abbr>
    </body>
</html> 

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Example

Without title Attribute:

<!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
	<title>Abbreviation tag</title>
 </head>
  <body>
   <h2>Abbreviation tag Example</h2>
   <p><abbr>CPU</abbr> is brain of a Computer</p>
  </body>
</html>

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