<ACRONYM></ACRONYM>

Display text as an acronym

Element is used to mark a section of text as an acronym.

        <html>
        <head>
        <title>Some Title</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            .
            .
==>>    <ACRONYM>STAG</ACRONYM>
            .
            .
        </body>
        </html>

The text marked by this element may be shown in italics. I think this a really obscure tag and you probably won't be using it much. I could envision the day when the tag might trigger some action, like building a cross-reference of acronyms to their full blown representation. But, that's only my imagination so don't go looking for such things to happen.

NOTE: Just in case you're sitting there thinking to yourself "why is there an ABBREV and an ACRONYM tag? Aren't they the same thing?" Well, believe it or not, they're different. An abbreviation doesn't spell a word while an acronym does. In the example above, STAG is short for System To Aid Geeks. An abbreviation like CPU on the other hand doesn't spell a word but almost stands for the same thing!

HTML 3.0 Draft

Adds the language elements.

Attributes common to almost all of the tags permitted in the document body include ID, LANG and CLASS. You probably won't be using any of these tags for a while but I've included them so you know they are coming.

ID: A name to be used as a target for links or for naming particular elements in a style sheet. These take the place of the HTML 2.0 <A NAME="somename">Some Name</A> construct that defines internal document links.
LANG: An ISO standard language abbreviation that defines language specific elements to be used.
CLASS: Used to assign a class name to a tag.
An example of these attributes in use is:: <ACRONYM ID="topicone" LANG="en-US" CLASS=section>STAG</ACRONYM>

Netscape

Nothing special.

Microsoft IE

Nothing special.

Internationalization

Nothing special.

The Rusk Family . . . "the Legend Continues"

Michael T. Rusk
Comments to author: mrusk@radix.net