acronym

Form

Attributes

attribute	default	description
id	none	specifies the unique ID
class	none	specifies the style sheet class
style	none	specifies the style sheet

Support

HTML 4.01 [STF], XHTML 1.0 [STF], XHTML 1.1, XHTML Basic
Microsoft (MSDN)
[IE4 or later][Firefox 1 or later][Safari 1 or later][Opera 6 or later][Netscape 6 or later]

Explanation

The acronym tag denotes an acronym
Terms such as NASA, NATO and SOHO correspond to acronyms

Related Tags

abbr

Sample Code [Output]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=shift_jis">
<title>Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample</h1>
<p>
The american space exploration is conducted by <acronym>NASA</acronym>.
</p>
</body>
</html>