<acronym>

Summary

The HTML Acronym Element (<acronym>) allows authors to clearly indicate a sequence of characters that compose an acronym or abbreviation for a word.

Attributes

This element only has global attributes, which are common to all elements.

DOM Interface

This element implements the HTMLElement interface.

Example

<p>The <acronym title="World Wide Web">WWW</acronym> is only a component of the Internet.</p>

Default styling

Though the purpose of this tag is purely for the convenience of the author, its default styling varies from one browser to another:

• Some browsers, like Internet Explorer, do not style it differently than a <span> element.
• Opera, Firefox, Chrome, and some others add a dotted underline to the content of the element.
• A few browsers not only add a dotted underline, but also put it in small caps; to avoid this styling, adding something like font-variant: none in the CSS takes care of this case.

It is therefore recommended that web authors either explicitly style this element, or accept some cross-browser variation.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• The <abbr> HTML element