abbr

Summary

Indicates an abbreviation or an acronym.

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## Notes

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.

Remarks

abbr was introduced in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 This property can be used for rendering to non-visual media such as speech or Braille. There is no functionality implemented for this property unless defined by the author.

Syntax

Attributions

Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]

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