Description

The <acronym> element defines an acronym. It is used to indicate a sequence of characters that is made up of the first letters of the words of a phrase such as 'WWW', 'HTML', etc.

The following table summarizes the usages context and the version history of this tag.

Placement:Inline
Content:Inline and text
Start/ End Tag:Start tag: required, End tag: required
Version:HTML 4, 4.01

Warning:Do not use this tag since it is a non-standard tag and has been deprecated in HTML 4.01 and obsolete since HTML5. Use the <abbr> tag instead.

Syntax

The basic syntax of the <acronym> tag is given with:

HTML/XHTML: <acronym title="string"> ... </acronym>

The example below shows the <acronym> tag in action.

<p>The <acronym title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</acronym> is the publishing language of the World Wide Web.</p>

Tag-Specific Attributes

The <acronym> tag doesn't have any specific attribute.

Global Attributes

Like all other HTML tags, the <acronym> tag supports the global attributes in HTML5.

Event Attributes

The <acronym> tag also supports the event attributes in HTML5.

Browser Compatibility

Element
<acronym>YesYesYesYesYes