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<h1>ABBR - Abbreviation</h1>
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<th>Syntax</th>
<td><strong class=required><ABBR></strong>...<strong class=required></ABBR></strong></td>
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<p>The <strong class=html>ABBR</strong> element is used to markup <em>abbreviations</em>. The <strong class=html><a href="../attrs.html#title">TITLE</a></strong> attribute is useful in conjunction with <strong class=html>ABBR</strong> to give the long form of the abbreviation, allowing visual browsers to provide the long form as a "tooltip". If the short form is a pronounceable word, the <strong class=html><a href="acronym.html">ACRONYM</a></strong> element should be used instead of <strong class=html>ABBR</strong>.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
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<li><code class=html><ABBR TITLE="United Nations">U.N.</ABBR></code></li>
<li><code class=html>He weighs 180 <ABBR TITLE=pounds>lbs.</ABBR></code></li>
<li><code class=html><ABBR TITLE="Parti Qubcois" LANG=fr-CA>PQ</ABBR></code></li>
<li><code class=html><ACRONYM TITLE="North Atlantic Treaty Organization">NATO</ACRONYM></code></li>
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<p>Some short forms, such as "<abbr class=initialism title="Structured Query Language">SQL</abbr>" and "<abbr class=initialism title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr>," are pronounced as words by some but pronounced letter-by-letter by others. In such cases, the <strong class=html>ABBR</strong> element should be favored over <strong class=html><a href="acronym.html">ACRONYM</a></strong>. A style sheet could be used to suggest the aural rendering. For example, one could use</p>
<p class=example><code class=html><ABBR TITLE="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</ABBR></code></p>
<p>with the following <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/">CSS2</a> style sheet:</p>
<p class=example><code class=css>abbr[title="Uniform Resource Locator"] { <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/aural.html#propdef-speak">speak</a>: spell-out }</code></p>
<h2>More Information</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#edef-ABBR">ABBR in <abbr class=initialism title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> HTML4.0 Recommendation</a></li>
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